Shipping a docs site in an afternoon

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most documentation sites die of structure, not of prose. You spend the first afternoon on the generator, the second on navigation, and by the third you have written four pages and lost interest. This walkthrough skips to the part where you are writing.

Start from the module, not from a fork

Add Liftoff as a Hugo module rather than copying it into themes/. You keep the ability to update, and your repository stays small enough to read.

Tutorial on Liftoff

Shipping a docs site in an afternoon

Start from the module, not from a fork