# Can you make Discourse look like medium.com?

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**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-make-discourse-look-like-medium-com/148603 "2020-04-20T12:17:18Z")\
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As someone new to Medium, I’m trying to understand how much you can customize the look and feel of a forum. I’m wondering if there’s a way to make your forum look more like a news site. Or make it seem to your users like they are writing a blog post.

To be more specific, can you make your forum mimic the look and feel of [medium.com](https://medium.com/)?

The home page of medium is laid out more like a news site–with articles (in the Discourse case, I guess they would be topics) in different places to be visually appealing.

A lot of the articles also have an image attached to it on the home page for visual appeal. Using Discourse, this could happen maybe if, for example, I as the forum owner would give each category an image, and that image would appear next to the topic when posted.

If you then go to write a post on [medium.com](http://medium.com), the post automatically defaults to a clean, distraction-free form that basically takes over the page.

Is there a way to make a discourse forum like this, especially the home page look and feel?

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