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Getting Started with Astro Theme

Hamish
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Welcome to our new Zendesk Guide theme - Astro! Astro theme offers the most effective tools to get users the content they need, not only by looking great but also providing simple configurability through its easy-to-use WYSIWYG settings.

Getting Started

To get started with the Astro theme you'll first need to either purchase a license or start a trial via the Zendesk Market Place here.

Assets Needed

Gather everything you need to theme your help centre perfectly; we recommend preparing the following assets which you'll need to change the look and feel of your help centre:

  • 🔠 Font files: You can use custom fonts for your theme in either a WOFF, WOFF2 or TTF file format. We recommend you have one font for the Headings and one for the regular body fonts. 

    • Your existing font details may be available in an existing Brand Guideline document. 
    • Find out more about importing fonts here.

  • 🎨 Colours: To ensure the colours match your branding guidelines, make sure you have access to the colour palette for your brand.

    • Working with HEX values is generally the easiest, as these can be easily copied and pasted into the colour selectors within the Theme Settings.
    • Your existing colour palette details may be available in an existing Brand Guidline document. 
    • Find out more on how to change the colour settings here.

  • 🖼️ Images: Ideally, you'll want to have access to as many images from your company as possible.

    • Ensure that you crop your images to suit the location of the image within the help centre.
    • We also recommend to convert your images to a compressed format to ensure fast page load speeds.

    • You can find out more about images here. 

  • 📃 FAQ Content: The Astro theme includes an easy-to-use FAQ section which can be activated for use on the homepage.

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