## Introduction

Get started with pollux by following this guide, It will help you to get the most out of our Bootstrap template quickly with easy understanding.

Thank you for purchasing pollux template! Before proceeding with the template installation, It is recommended that you follow the steps listed in this guide. If you can't find the answer you’re looking for, generate ticket through our support portal and you shall hear back very soon.

### Directory structure

Once you have downloaded the package after template extracting, you will see the following files & folder structure:

- template
    Includes all assets and template files, used in template
  docs
    Includes template's documentation files (on template editing and setup).
  index.html
    Main documentation file. You are reading it at the moment.
  assets
    Includes all assets files, like CSS, Images, JS, SCSS and plugins used in template
  css
    Includes .css file, used in template
  - images
      Includes all images, used in .html files.
  - js
      Includes plugin's initialization file
  - scss
      Includes all of raw source files that are used to create the final CSS that is included in template
  - vendor
      Includes all plugins files.
  - index.html
      You will find here all .html files used in template
- gulpfile.js
    All the build commands
  package.json
    List of dependencies and npm information
  package-lock.json
    Lock dependencies to a specific version number to avoid possible version mismatch.
  README.MD

### What to do after purchase?

###### 1. Check template inside out

After extracting .zip file, check every file and folder to know more about template inside out. Confused with any file/folder usage? Check above directory structure to clear your doubts. We recommended reading the whole documentation for better understanding of template. Yes, it will take up to 30 min but it worth reading.

###### 2. Install local environment for customization (Optional but highly recommended)

Go to Gulp section and follow the steps. You can skip this step if you prefer to work with pollux as a static source without Gulp and Sass.

###### 3. Branding

After installation and running gulp, change your brand colors buy following Color scheme section instructions. Change your brand logo by following Logo settings section

###### 4. Customization

Now you can start customizing your website as per your need.

###### 5. Delete unnecessary file and folder to upload on live server

After completing your website, you must need to delete unnecessary file and folder to reduce website size. Please check below folders/files usage to run your website:

- assets/css: You must need style.css (or style-rtl.scss for RTL version). If you have not used color.css file then you can remove it.
- assets/images: You can remove all unnecessary files from this folder.
- assets/js: Don't delete this folder/file.
- assets/scss: If you don't want sourcemap you can remove SCSS folder. You must remove source map comment from the end of the style.css (or style-rtl.scss for RTL version) file to avoid warning on console log.
- assets/vendor: Keep only those vendor folders that you have used in your website.
- node_modules: You only need this folder for local server. Don't upload it to live server.
- docs: You don't need docs folder for your live website.