improve docs for theming

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to use the WEBrick server, but for any other web service you have to add support for the redirect. Instead, Octopress uses the `root` config and offers a rake task
`set_root_dir[/some/directory]` which moves the output directory into a subdirectory and updates configurations. [(see Deploying Octopress)](/docs/deploying).
### 3rd Party Settings
<h3 id="third_party">3rd Party Settings</h3>
These third party integrations are already set up for you. Simply fill in the configurations and they'll be added to your site.
- **Twitter** - Setup a sidebar twitter feed, follow button, and tweet button (for sharing posts and pages).

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The key source directories are as follows:
Shortly after the 2.0 release Octopress added the `source/_includes/custom` directory. If you don't have this, you'll want to [update](/docs/updating) because it's really nice.
source/
_includes/ # Main layout partials
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post/ # post metadata, sharing & comment partials
_layouts/ # layouts for pages, posts & category archives
It's pretty likely you'll create pages and want to add them to the main navigation partial. In the latest (version 2.1) To do that
### Changing the sidebar
Octopress integrates with some [3rd party services](/docs/configuring/#third_party) like Twitter, Pinboard and Delicious which appear in the sidebar.
In the `_config.yml` you can rearrange these, create custom sidebars for each layout, and add your own sidebar sections.
Beyond that, I don't expect there to be a great need to change the markup very much, since the HTML is flexible and semantic and most common
customizations be taken care of [with configuration](/docs/configuring).
{% codeblock Sidebar configuration (_config.yml) %}
default_asides: [asides/recent_posts.html, asides/twitter.html, asides/delicious.html, asides/pinboard.html]
# blog_index_asides:
# post_asides:
# page_asides:
{% endcodeblock %}
If you study the layouts and partials, you'll see that there's a lot of conditional markup. Logic in the view is lamentable, but a necessary
side effect of simple static site generation.
If you want to add a section to your sidebar, create a new file in `source/_includes/custom/asides/`.
Since many people probably want to add an About Me section, there's already an `about.html` file in there waiting to be added. Here's a look.
{% codeblock About Me (source/_includes/custom/asides/about.html) %}
{% render_partial ../.themes/classic/source/_includes/custom/asides/about.html raw %}
{% endcodeblock %}
Whenever you add a section to the sidebar, follow this pattern, with a `<section>` block and an `<h1>` for a title. To add it to the sidebar, edit the `_config.yml` and add it to the list of asides.
{% codeblock Sidebar configuration (_config.yml) %}
default_asides: [asides/recent_posts.html, asides/twitter.html, asides/delicious.html, asides/pinboard.html]
blog_index_asides: [custom/asides/about.html, asides/recent_posts.html, asides/twitter.html, asides/delicious.html, asides/pinboard.html]
post_asides: [custom/asides/about.html, asides/recent_posts.html, asides/twitter.html, asides/delicious.html, asides/pinboard.html]
# page_asides:
{% endcodeblock %}
In the configuration above I've added the about page to the blog index and post pages. Since `page_asides` isn't being set, it will inherit from the default list.
### Changing the &lt;HEAD&gt;
If you want to add to the `<HEAD>`take a look at `/source/_includes/custom/head.html`.
{% codeblock &lt;HEAD&gt; (source/_includes/custom/head.html) %}
{% render_partial ../.themes/classic/source/_includes/custom/head.html raw %}
{% endcodeblock %}
Here you can easily change or remove the [Google Webfonts](http://google.com/webfonts), insert javascripts, etc.
### Changing the Navigation
As soon as you add pages to your site, you'll want to put them in the main navigation. The links come from `/source/_includes/custom/navigation.html` which looks like this:
{% codeblock Navigation (source/_includes/custom/navigation.html) %}
{% render_partial ../.themes/classic/source/_includes/custom/navigation.html raw %}
{% endcodeblock %}
The `href` for each link begins with `{% raw %}{{ root_url }}{% endraw %}` (this helps Octopress write urls differently if a site is deployed to a subdirectory).
If you're deploying your site to a subdirectory like `yoursite.com/octopress` you'll want to add this to any links you add.
### Changing the Footer
You can customize the footer in `source/_includes/custom/footer.html` which looks like this:
{% codeblock Footer (source/_includes/custom/footer.html) %}
{% render_partial ../.themes/classic/source/_includes/custom/footer.html raw %}
{% endcodeblock %}
Change this however you like, but if you're cool, you'll leave the Octopress link in there.