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# Setup
Material for MkDocs offers a wide range of options for customizing and adjusting
your documentation. In this section, we will explain how to make the most use of
Material for MkDocs to change the look of your documentation, add more content,
improve its functionality, and work with extensions.
Material for MkDocs offers a wide range of options for customizing your
documentation. In this section, we will explain how you can create a meaningful
structure for your site, change the look and feel, add a blog and comment system
and build a highly optimized site.
## Customizing the look
## Site structure
Make your documentation reflect your brand by changing its colors, fonts, icons,
logo, and more with just a few lines of configuration. Material for MkDocs makes
it easy to extend the basic configurations and provides many options to alter
the appearance.
Set up and customize the structure of your documentation by configuring the
header and footer to your taste, choosing among many modes of navigation,
setting up site search and more.
<div class="grid cards" markdown>
- :material-brush-variant: __[Colors]__ Change colors with an existing color palette or customize with CSS
- :fontawesome-regular-file-word: __[Fonts]__ Change fonts using Google Fonts or load self-hosted fonts
- :material-google-downasaur: __[Logo & Icons]__ Change the logo, use any of the +8,000 icons, or add new ones
- :fontawesome-solid-earth-americas: __[Language]__ Choose out of the 50+ supported languages or add a new one
- :material-page-layout-sidebar-left: __[Navigation]__ Create a clear, concise, and comprehensive navigation structure
- :material-page-layout-header: __[Header]__ Customize the behavior of the header, add an announcement bar
- :material-page-layout-footer: __[Footer]__ Add links to your social media profiles or websites in the footer
- :material-tab-search: __[Search]__ Set up and configure search, running entirely in the user's browser
- :material-tag-plus-outline: __[Tags]__ Categorize your pages with tags and group related pages
</div>
[Colors]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/changing-the-colors/
[Fonts]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/changing-the-fonts/
[Logo & Icons]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/changing-the-logo-and-icons/
[Language]: changing-the-language.md
[Navigation]: setting-up-navigation.md
[Header]: setting-up-the-header.md
[Footer]: setting-up-the-footer.md
[Search]: setting-up-site-search.md
[Tags]: setting-up-tags.md
## Adding additional content
Easily extend the content of your documentation. Adjusting headers, including a
footer, creating a blog, implementing comment systems, and automatically creating
social media previews.
## Appearance
Match your brand's colors, fonts, icons, logo, and more with a few lines of
configuration Material for MkDocs makes it easy to extend the basic
configuration or alter the appearance.
<div class="grid cards" markdown>
- :material-format-header-1: __[Header]__ Customize the header using different configurations
- :material-format-font-size-decrease: __[Footer]__ Add links to social media or other websites in the footer
- :material-cards-variant: __[Social Cards]__ Create automated Social Media previews when sharing links
- :material-book-open-outline: __[Blog]__ Build a standalone blog or expand your documentation with one
- :material-brush-variant: __[Colors]__ Change colors with an existing color palette or customize with CSS
- :material-format-font: __[Fonts]__ Choose among 1,000 Google Fonts or load self-hosted fonts
- :material-google-downasaur: __[Logo & Icons]__ Change the logo, use any of the 8,000+ icons, or add new ones
- :material-cards-variant: __[Social Cards]__ Automatically create social media previews when sharing links
</div>
[Colors]: changing-the-colors.md
[Fonts]: changing-the-fonts.md
[Logo & Icons]: changing-the-logo-and-icons.md
[Social Cards]: setting-up-social-cards.md
## Content
Create a blog, integrate a comment system, connect a git repository and set up
versioned documentation that matches your project's versioning metholodogy.
<div class="grid cards" markdown>
- :material-book-open-outline: __[Blog]__ Set up a standalone blog or host it alongside your documentation
- :material-comment-text-outline: __[Comment System]__ Add a third-party comment system on any page or footer
</div>
[Header]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-the-header/
[Footer]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-the-footer/
[Social Cards]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-social-cards/
[Blog]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-a-blog/
[Comment System]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/adding-a-comment-system/
## Enhancing functionality
Improve the functionality of your documentation by integrating navigation and
site search, categorizing pages using tags, changing the language, or adding
multiple languages, and deploying multiple versions.
<div class="grid cards" markdown>
- :material-navigation-variant-outline: __[Navigation]__ Create a clear, concise, and comprehensive navigation structure
- :material-tab-search: __[Site Search]__ Set up an excellent client-side search implementation
- :fontawesome-solid-earth-americas: __[Language]__ Change the language using one of the +50 existing translations
- :octicons-tag-16: __[Tags]__ Categorize your pages with tags and group related pages
- :octicons-versions-16: __[Versioning]__ Deploy multiple versions by integrating with external utilities
- :octicons-repo-16: __[Repository]__ Connect your documentation to your git repository
</div>
[Navigation]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-navigation/
[Site Search]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-site-search/
[Language]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/changing-the-language/
[Tags]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-tags/
[Versioning]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-versioning/
[Blog]: setting-up-a-blog.md
[Comment System]: adding-a-comment-system.md
[Versioning]: setting-up-versioning.md
[Repository]: adding-a-git-repository.md
## Optimizing your site
## Optimization
Optimize your site by displaying information from your Git repository, getting a
higher ranking on search engines, ensuring compliance with data privacy
regulations, and unlocking offline usage.
Add site analytics and build an optimized site by adding automatic image
compression, complying with GDPR data privacy regulations and make it
offline-capable.
<div class="grid cards" markdown>
- :fontawesome-brands-git: __[Git Repository]__ Display information to your project's repository on your static site
- :material-screwdriver: __[Optimized site]__ Create optimized sites that rank great on search engines, i.a.
- :material-google-analytics: __[Site analytics]__ Learn how your users experience your documentation
- :material-screwdriver: __[Optimized site]__ Create optimized sites that rank great on search engines
- :octicons-lock-16: __[Data Privacy]__ Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations
- :octicons-cloud-offline-16: __[Offline usage]__ Build an online and offline-capable documentation
</div>
[Git Repository]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/adding-a-git-repository/
[Optimized site]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/building-an-optimized-site/
[Data Privacy]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/ensuring-data-privacy/
[Offline usage]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/building-for-offline-usage/
## Working with extensions
Extend the range of available features and enhance your technical writing by
working with extensions in your documentation.
<div class="grid cards" markdown>
- :material-language-python: __[Python Markdown]__ Unlock a large range of features that require Python Markdown
- :material-plus-box: __[Python Markdown Extension]__ Advance your technical writing with a collection of extensions
</div>
[Python Markdown]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/extensions/python-markdown/
[Python Markdown Extension]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/extensions/python-markdown-extensions/
## Dependencies
Install external libraries to allow for image processing as part of the build
pipeline to make use of social cards and image optimization features.
<div class="grid cards" markdown>
- :fontawesome-regular-image: __[Image processing]__ Install external libraries for image processing during the build pipeline
</div>
[Image processing]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/dependencies/image-processing/
[Site analytics]: site-analytics.md
[Optimized site]: building-an-optimized-site.md
[Data Privacy]: ensuring-data-privacy.md
[Offline usage]: building-for-offline-usage.md