**Academic** is a framework to help you create a beautiful website quickly. Perfect for personal, student, or academic websites. [Check out the latest demo](https://sourcethemes.com/academic/) of what you'll get in less than 10 minutes.
- Write in [Markdown](https://sourcethemes.com/academic/post/writing-markdown-latex/) for easy formatting and code highlighting, with [LaTeX](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics) for mathematical expressions
1. [Install Hugo](https://georgecushen.com/create-your-website-with-hugo/#installing-hugo) and create a new website by typing the following commands in your *Terminal* or *Command Prompt* app:
Or alternatively, [download Academic](https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/archive/master.zip) and extract it into a `themes/academic` folder within your Hugo website.
3. If you are creating a new website, copy the contents of the `exampleSite` folder to your website root folder, overwriting existing files if necessary. The `exampleSite` folder contains an example config file and content to help you get started.
5. [Customize your website](https://sourcethemes.com/academic/post/getting-started/#getting-started) and [add your content](https://sourcethemes.com/academic/post/managing-content/) by referring to the Academic documentation
6. Build your site by running the `hugo` command. Then [host it for free using Github Pages](https://georgecushen.com/create-your-website-with-hugo/). Or alternatively, copy the generated `public/` directory (by FTP, Rsync, etc.) to your production web server (such as your university's hosting service).
Feel free to *star* the project on [Github](https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/) to help keep track of updates and check out the [release notes](https://sourcethemes.com/academic/tags/updates) prior to updating your site.
If you have modified files in `themes/academic`, git will attempt to auto-merge changes. If conflicts are reported, you will need to manually edit the files with conflicts and add them back (`git add <filename>`).
If there are any issues after updating, you may wish to compare your site with the latest [example site](https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/tree/master/exampleSite) to check if any settings changed in `config.toml` or the `+++` frontmatter of content files.
Please use the [issue tracker](https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/issues) to let me know about any bugs or feature requests, or alternatively make a pull request.