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Bootstrap Sticky Footer Navbar
by Bootstrap (official examples)
Good for documentation and help center, personal site
Best free templates
Best free documentation and help center templates
Docs and help centers live or die on navigation: a sidebar of topics, search and readable articles. These templates give you those layouts to build on.
39 free templates that suit documentation and help center sites, ranked by how well they fit. Templates marked "adapts well" were not designed for this kind of site but have the right structure.
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Scrolling Nav
by Start Bootstrap
Good for documentation and help center, nonprofit, church and community, event and wedding
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Simple Sidebar
by Start Bootstrap
Good for documentation and help center, admin dashboard
CC0-1.0Jekyll
Cayman
by GitHub Pages
Good for documentation and help center, personal site, startup and SaaS
Apache-2.0Hugo + Bootstrap
Docsy
by Google
Good for documentation and help center, school, course and tutor, startup and SaaS
MITReact (Docusaurus)
Docusaurus
by Meta Open Source
Good for documentation and help center, blog, startup and SaaS
MITJekyll
Just the Docs
by Just the Docs
Good for documentation and help center, school, course and tutor
MITMkDocs
Material for MkDocs
by Martin Donath
Good for documentation and help center, school, course and tutor
MITVue (VitePress)
VitePress
by Vue team
Good for documentation and help center, blog, startup and SaaS
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Bootstrap Sidebars
by Bootstrap (official examples)
Good for admin dashboard, documentation and help center
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Bootstrap Starter Template
by Bootstrap (official examples)
Good for personal site, documentation and help center
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Bare
by Start Bootstrap
Adapts well
Good for personal site, documentation and help center
MITJekyll
Bulma Clean Theme
by C.S. Rhymes
Good for small business, blog, documentation and help center
MITJekyll + Bootstrap
Chirpy
by Cotes Chung
Good for blog, personal site, documentation and help center
CC BY 3.0HTML5 and CSS (Sass)
Editorial
by HTML5 UP
Adapts well
Good for blog, school, course and tutor, nonprofit, church and community
What a documentation and help center website needs
Whichever template you choose, make sure your site has these. Tick them off as you go; your ticks are saved on this device.
Tip: Write the five questions customers ask most first. That is your help center.
Frequently asked questions
Are these documentation and help center templates really free?
Yes. Every template here is free to download. Templates under the MIT license can be used for any site, including client work, as long as you keep the license file. Templates under CC BY 3.0 (HTML5 UP) are free for commercial use if you credit the maker.
Do I need to know how to code?
You need to be comfortable editing HTML text and swapping images. If you are not, a website builder may suit you better. Our guide template, website builder or designer? helps you decide.
Can I see a template on my phone before I download it?
Yes. Every template page shows a phone screenshot, and templates with a live preview let you switch between desktop, tablet and phone sizes.
Which template should I pick?
Start with the one whose layout matches the pages you need, not the one with the prettiest photos, because you will replace the photos. Our template finder suggests three in under a minute.
Other kinds of site
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