Blazing fast
No JS framework, no build step. Compressed CSS, deferred scripts and a prebuilt search index.
Jekyll theme
Simple, searchable docs for teams
DocSteer turns a folder of Markdown into a fast documentation site your whole team can search — six colour skins, dark mode, live search and an image lightbox, all configured from one YAML file.
Six colour skins
Aqua, Violet, Mint, Ember, Graphite and Clay — switch in config.yml or live in the navbar.
Live search
Instant client-side search with keyboard navigation and “/” or ⌘K to open.
Pixel-perfect & responsive
A layout tuned from 320 px phones to ultrawide, with a real mobile drawer.
Dark mode
Every skin ships light and dark variants that follow the OS or a manual toggle.
Image lightbox
Click any content image to zoom, with captions, keyboard nav and galleries.
SEO ready
jekyll-seo-tag, sitemap, RSS, Open Graph and JSON-LD out of the box.
Easy to customise
One colour map, documented tokens, and override files that survive upgrades.
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Everything you need to ship your docs today.
Fast and good-looking
Most documentation themes make you choose between fast and good-looking. DocSteer is a static-first theme: the only JavaScript is a few kilobytes of vanilla code for search, the lightbox and the table of contents. Everything else is HTML and CSS custom properties.
It is free and MIT-licensed. If it saves you a day of work, you can buy me a coffee — but you never have to.
Why “DocSteer”?
/dɒkˈstɪə/ — dok-STEER, stress on the second syllable, rhyming with beer.
Because steering is the whole job. The sidebar, the search box and the table of contents are not decoration: they exist to point a reader at the one page they actually came for. A docs site that cannot do that is a folder of Markdown with a stylesheet on top.
A steer is also a young ox. That was not the plan, but as a description of something that hauls a large pile of documentation around without complaining, it is hard to argue with — so I have made my peace with it.