Basic displayable Zola starter with a built-in minimal theme (no external theme): home, about, blog section, 2 sample posts.
zola serve # preview with live reload
zola build # output to public/The austere-theme-zola/ directory is an untouched upstream clone kept for reference only; the site uses the built-in templates in templates/.
Raster images must be WebP. Vector graphics are inline SVG (hero art, icons, favicon); anything photographic or exported as a bitmap goes in static/ as .webp:
magick input.png -resize 1200x -strip -quality 82 output.webpOne exception: og-image.png stays PNG on purpose — Facebook, LinkedIn, and X card scrapers do not reliably accept WebP for og:image, so the social card is the only PNG that ships. It is referenced only from front matter preview:, never rendered on the page.