### 1. Introduction

We would like to thank you for choosing Hostie Web Hosting and WHMCS Django Template.

We made Hostie from the ground-up with flexibility in mind. Each element of Hostie is extremely customizable, where you can make Hostie to reflect your own branding styles.

The guide gives you detailed methodologies about how you can customize Hostie and make it fit your brand perfectly!

### 1.1. What's Included

After purchasing Hostie template on themeforest.net with your Envato account, go to your Download page. You can choose to download Hostie template only or the entire Hostie template package which contains the following files:

- Hostie: A Django template file.
- documentation: This folder contains what you are reading now.

##### Folder Structure:

- root Folder:
- assets Folder:
- src Folder:

### 1.2. Install

1. ##### Installation:

   The zip file contains all js files integrated with Larix, however you need to perform following steps to run project locally.

   Make sure to have the Python installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed Python on your computer, you can skip this step. Please use Python version 3 or if you are using Paython version 2 then make sure to run all the below commands with python insted of python3. If you are using Windows OS then please install using APP store.

   Make sure to have the `virtualenv` installed globally & running on your computer. If you already have installed on your computer, you can skip this step.

   Virtualenv installation command for linux & mac os
   `python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv`
   Virtualenv installation command for Windows
   `py -m pip install --user virtualenv`

   Command | Description
   --- | ---
   `python3 -m venv env_name` | Create Virtual Environment on linux & mac OS
   `python -m venv env_name` | Create Virtual Environment on Windows OS
   `source environment_name/bin/activate` | Activate Environment on Linux & mac OS
   `environment_name\Scripts\activate` | Activate Environment on Windows OS
   `pip3 install django` | Install Django on linux & mac OS
   `pip install django` | Install Django on Windows OS

   After you finished with the above steps, you can run the following commands into the terminal / command prompt from the root directory of the project to run the project locally:

   `pip install django-embed-video`

   Run below command for database migration
   For Windows: `python manage.py migrate`
   For Linux: `python3 manage.py migrate`

   Run below command for run your project
   For Windows: `python manage.py runserver`
   For Linux: `python3 manage.py runserver`

### 1.3. Font

                                    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@200;300;400;500;600;700;800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
                                    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Plus+Jakarta+Sans:ital,wght@0,500;0,600;0,700;1,400;1,800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

### 1.4. Source File (CSS)

                                <link rel="preload stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/plugins.min.css' %}" as="style">
                                <link rel="preload stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/plugins/fontawesome.min.css' %}" as="style">
                                <link rel="preload stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/style.css' %}" as="style">

### 1.5. Source File (JS)

                                <script src="{% static 'js/plugins.min.js' %}"></script>
                                <script src="{% static 'js/currency/app.js' %}"></script>
                                <script src="{% static 'js/main.js' %}"></script>

### 2. Make any changes

To make any changes on your site, go to static and templates folder in your editor and change as you wish.

### 2.1. Change Site Title and Favicon

To change your Site title and Favicon, open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow.

You find Change title option in `views.py` Files. I mentoned below. It's dynamically set {{ page_title }} tags.

### 2.2. Change Logo

To change your Site Logo, open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow. You can change specific header logo and footer logo. I just showing header-one style for example purpose.

### 2.3. Header Menu

To customize your Header Menu, open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow.

### 2.4. Mobile Menu

To customize your Sidebar Menu, open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow.

### 3.1. Header

From the located file in the image you can customize you site header layout

### 4. Content

To customize your Site Content open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow.

Page Content:

### 4.1. Header Style Change Options

To customize you site header open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow. You just need to change the header style. such as: `header-one` To `header-two` for Style Two. Hostie Template has 7 different header styles

Header Styles

### 4.2. Domain Finder

To customize your Site Domain Finder open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow.

### 4.3. Offer Section

To customize your Site Offer Section open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow.

### 4.4. Testimonial

To customize your Site Testimonial open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow.

### 4.10. Authentication

To customize your Site Authentication open the Hostie in your editor and go to the location by following screenshot which are given bellow.

### 5. Support

#### Support Scope

Included in Free Support Scope:

- Fixing bugs
- Helping clients in changing site contents by sending instructions that couldn’t be covered by documentation

NOT Included in Free Support Scope:

- Any type of custom changes
- Any type of request to update clients’ site contents

Paid Support Scope:

Paid support is not a part of Free Support when you purchase the template from themeforest. We understand that some clients need custom changes while using our template. For that we kept an option for paid support which includes:

- Custom change request
- Custom pages
- Custom features

We kept a flat rate for our paid support which is $25/hour.

#### Support Ticket

Please send your support request here. You will response within 1 business day.

Regards,
ThemeWant Support Team