Terrassa is a simple, fast and responsive theme for Hugo with a strong focus on accessibility made from scratch.

• Coherent responsive design.
• Consistent design throughout the entire site.
• Classic navigation menu in large screen sizes.
• Hamburger menu in mobile devices.
• Focus on accessibility.
• Customizable call to action on the home page.
• Contact form.
• Ready for blogging.

• A better hamburger menu.
• Service Workers.
• Easier ways to customize fonts and colors.
• Support for comments.

To install Terrassa run the followings command inside your Hugo site:

$ mkdir themes
$ cd themes
$ git clone https://github.com/danielkvist/hugo-terrassa-theme.git terrassa

Or

$ mkdir themes
$ cd themes
$ git submodule add https://github.com/danielkvist/hugo-terrassa-theme.git terrassa

You can also download the last release here.

Back to your Hugo site directory open the config.toml file and add or change the following line:

theme = "terrassa"

You can find an example of the final configuration here.

baseurl = "/"           # The base URL of your Hugo site
title = "titlehere"     # The title of your Hugo site
author = "authorhere"   # The author name
googleAnalytics = ""    # Your Google Analytics tracking ID
enableRobotsTXT = true
language = "en-US"
paginate = 7            # The numbers of posts per page
theme = "terrassa"      # Your Hugo theme

There's a lot more information about the basic configuration of an Hugo site here.

[params]
    description = "" # Description for the meta description tag
    favicon = ""     # Relative URL for your favicon
    logo = ""        # Absolute URL for your logo

[params.hero]
    textColor = "" # Empty for default color

[params.cta] # Call To Action 
    show = true
    cta = "Contact"  # Text message of the CTA
    link = "contact" # Relative URL

[params.separator]
    show = false

[params.contact]
    email = ""
    phone = ""
    skype = ""
    address = ""

[params.social]
    twitter = ""
    facebook = ""
    github = ""
    gitlab = ""
    codepen = ""
    instagram = ""
    pinterest = ""
    youtube = ""
    linkedin = ""
    weibo = ""
    mastodon = ""
    tumblr = ""
    flickr = ""
    "500px" = ""

Icons for social networks depend on Font Awesome.

[params.fa]
    version = ""    # Font Awesome version
    integrity = ""  # Font Awesome integrity for the Font Awesome script

[params.copy]
    message = ""

[params.agreement]
    message = ""    # You can use HTML tags

[params.posts]
    showAuthor = true
    showDate = true
    showTags = true
    dateFormat = "Monday, Jan, 2006"

[params.form]
    netlify = true # Only if you are using Netlify
    action = ""
    method = ""
    inputNameName = ""
    inputNameLabel = ""
    inputNamePlaceholder = ""
    inputEmailName = ""
    inputEmailLabel = ""
    inputEmailPlaceholder = ""
    inputMsgName = ""
    inputMsgLabel = ""
    inputMsgLength = 750
    inputSubmitValue = ""

[privacy]
    [privacy.googleAnalytics]
        anonymizeIP = true
        disable = false
        respectDoNotTrack = true
        useSessionStorage = false
    [privacy.instagram]
        disable = false
        simple = false
    [privacy.twitter]
        disable = false
        enableDNT = true
        simple = false
    [privacy.vimeo]
        disable = false
        simple = false
    [privacy.youtube]
        disable = false
        privacyEnhanced = true

To learn more about privacy configuration check the official documentation.

To add custom CSS you have to create a folder called assets in the root of your project. Then, create another folder called css inside assets. And finally, a file called custom.css inside css with your styles.

$ mkdir -p ./assets/css/

Terrassa includes three base archetypes:

• default: for content such as blogs posts.
• section: for the sections on your Home page.
• page: for pages like the About page.

So be careful. Creating a new site with Hugo also creates a default archetype that replaces the one provided by Terrassa.

To create your home page run the following command inside your Hugo site:

$ hugo new _index.md -k page

Or to create another page:

$ hugo new example.md -k page

You'll get something like this:

---
title: ""
description: ""
images: []
draft: true
menu: main
weight: 0
---

Some properties are used as follows:

• title: is the name that will be displayed in the menu. In the rest of the single pages the main title of the content.
• description: in the case of the home page the description is not shown. In the rest of the single pages it is shown as a subtitle.
• images: in the case of the home page the first image is used as the background image for the hero and to share on social networks (with Twitter Cards and Facebook Graph). In every other page or post is used only for share on social networks.
• weight: sets the order of the items in the menu.

To create a new section in your Home page follow the next steps:

$ hugo new sections/example.md -k section

You'll come across something like this:

---
title: "Example"
description: ""
draft: true
weight: 0
---

The title is used as the title of your new section and the content is the body. At this moment the description is not used for anything.

The weight defines the order in case of having more than one section.

To create a Blog or a page with a similar structure follow these steps:

$ hugo new posts/_index.md -k page

In this case it is only necessary to set, if wanted, the title and the weight in the _index.md.

To add a new posts run the following command:

$ hugo new posts/bad-example.md

Inside this file you'll find something like this:

---
title: "Bad example"
description: ""
date: 2018-12-27T21:09:45+01:00
publishDate: 2018-12-27T21:09:45+01:00
author: "John Doe"
images: []
draft: true
tags: []
---

The title and description are used as the main title and subtitle respectively.

You can find more information about each parameter in the official documentation.

Then, the corresponding section will show a list of cards with the title, the date, a summary of the content (truncated to 480 words) and a list of tags if any.

For the contact page follow these instructions:

$ hugo new contact/_index.md -k page

The title and description will be used as the main title and subtitle respectively with a contact form. The rest of the options are defined in the config.toml.