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Hugo believes that you organize your content with a purpose. The same structure
that works to organize your source content is used to organize the rendered
site (see [Organization](/content/organization/)). Following this pattern Hugo
uses the top level of your content organization as **the Section**.
The following example site uses two sections, "post" and "quote".
{{< nohighlight >}}.
└── content
├── post
| ├── firstpost.md // <- http://1.com/post/firstpost/
| ├── happy
| | └── ness.md // <- http://1.com/post/happy/ness/
| └── secondpost.md // <- http://1.com/post/secondpost/
└── quote
├── first.md // <- http://1.com/quote/first/
└── second.md // <- http://1.com/quote/second/
{{< /nohighlight >}}
## Section Lists
Hugo will automatically create pages for each section root that list all
of the content in that section. See [List Templates](/templates/list/)
for details on customizing the way they appear.
## Sections and Types
By default everything created within a section will use the content type
that matches the section name.
Section defined in the front matter have the same impact.
To change the type of a given piece of content, simply define the type
in the front matter.
If a layout for a given type hasn't been provided, a default type template will
be used instead provided it exists.