diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
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+# Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.
+#
+# This file only contains a selection of the most common options. For a full
+# list see the documentation:
+# http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/config
+
+# -- Path setup --------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#
+# import os
+# import sys
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+import cloud_sptheme as csp
+
+# -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
+
+project = 'Research Software Engineering with Python'
+copyright = '2019, JH, DPS, AG'
+author = 'JH, DPS, AG'
+
+
+# -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+    'nbsphinx',
+    'sphinx.ext.mathjax',
+]
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This pattern also affects html_static_path and html_extra_path.
+exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store', '**.ipynb_checkpoints']
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+#
+html_theme = 'cloud'
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ['_static']
+# html_sidebars = {
+#     '**': [
+#         'about.html',
+#         'navigation.html',
+#         'relations.html',
+#         'searchbox.html',
+#         'donate.html',
+#     ]
+# }
+# html_theme_options = {
+#     "fixed_sidebar": True
+# }
+html_theme_path = [csp.get_theme_dir()]
+html_theme_options = { "roottarget": "index" }
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+html_sidebars = {'**': ['searchbox.html', 'globaltoc.html']}
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+html_use_smartypants = True
+# The frontpage document.
+index_doc = 'index'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+html_theme_options = {}
+if csp.is_cloud_theme(html_theme):
+    html_theme_options.update(
+        roottarget=index_doc,
+        borderless_decor=True,
+        sidebarwidth="3in",
+        hyphenation_language="en",
+    )
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 613c56e6..bf16aaa0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -22,3 +22,5 @@ imageio
 pycodestyle
 pylint
 webcolors
+nbsphinx
+cloud_sptheme