Zola isn’t a blog engine per se, but a static side generator with markdown for content management in Zola terms theme really means a pre-built site that said,

Zola isn’t a blog engine per se, but a static side generator with markdown for content management in Zola terms theme really means a pre-built site that said, i don’t have a guide, but i have made a sleek template for Zola (link above) which anybody can use in minutes and deploy on Netlify from GitHub the template is a blog with projects section, although it can be extended to add every section imaginable the price for the theme is significantly lower than the hours you need to put in to build a similar one from scratch (sorry for ad)