1. Zone Structure
18 June 2025
A Zone is just the folder containing all the data that Zonest uses to build your website!
The minimum site structure is as follows:
/images
/posts/2025-06-13-my-first-post.md
/style/style.css
footer.md
header.md
index.md
(Posts are actually optional)
The index.md will be built as your index.html and serve as the homepage/root of your site.
header.md and footer.md are appended to the top and bottom of every page respectively. Your header can contain additional info for styling the metadata of your site, more on that in the next post.
style.css is the default style applied to your entire site. More on that in the 'Theming' post.
Your images have to go in the /images folder, you can also put any other assets in here, like javascript you want to reference.
To create a new page, like an about page, is as easy making a new text file in your root-directory and giving it a name, like about.md. Zonest will build each file in your root directory to its own html page.
Additionally, you don't have to use Markdown to write your posts; you may use raw html instead if you prefer, just don't include a <head> or <body> tag.