diff --git a/content/en/content-management/static-files.md b/content/en/content-management/static-files.md
index fe5ea77e0..8967f5983 100644
--- a/content/en/content-management/static-files.md
+++ b/content/en/content-management/static-files.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Static Files
-description: "The `static` folder is where you place all your **static files**."
+description: "Files that get served **statically** (as-is, no modification) on the site root."
 date: 2017-11-18
 categories: [content management]
 keywords: [source, directories]
@@ -13,36 +13,58 @@ aliases: [/static-files]
 toc: true
 ---
 
-The `static` folder is where you place all your **static files**, e.g. stylesheets, JavaScript, images etc.
+By default, the `static/` directory in the site project is used for
+all **static files** (e.g. stylesheets, JavaScript, images).
 
-You can set the name of the static folder to use in your configuration file.  From **Hugo 0.31** you can configure as many static directories as you need. All the files in all the static directories will form a union filesystem.
+Hugo can be configured to look into a different directory, or even
+**multiple directories** for such static files by configuring the
+`staticDir` parameter in the [site config][]. All the files in all the
+static directories will form a union filesystem.
 
-Example:
+This union filesystem will be served from your site root. So a file
+`<SITE PROJECT>/static/me.png` will be accessible as
+`<MY_BASEURL>/me.png`.
+
+Here's an example of setting `staticDir` and `staticDir2` for a
+multi-language site:
 
 {{< code-toggle copy="false" file="config" >}}
 staticDir = ["static1", "static2"]
-[languages]
-[languages.no]
-staticDir = ["staticDir_override", "static_no"]
-baseURL = "https://example.no"
-languageName = "Norsk"
-weight = 1
-title = "På norsk"
 
+[languages]
 [languages.en]
 staticDir2 = "static_en"
 baseURL = "https://example.com"
 languageName = "English"
 weight = 2
 title = "In English"
+[languages.no]
+staticDir = ["staticDir_override", "static_no"]
+baseURL = "https://example.no"
+languageName = "Norsk"
+weight = 1
+title = "På norsk"
 {{</ code-toggle >}}
 
 In the above, with no theme used:
 
-* The English site will get its static files as a union of "static1", "static2" and "static_en". On file duplicates, the right-most version will win.
-* The Norwegian site will get its static files as a union of "staticDir_override" and "static_no".
+- The English site will get its static files as a union of "static1",
+  "static2" and "static_en". On file duplicates, the right-most
+  version will win.
+- The Norwegian site will get its static files as a union of
+  "staticDir_override" and "static_no".
 
-**Note:** The `2` `static2` (can be a number between 0 and 10) is added to tell Hugo that you want to **add** this directory to the global set of static directories. Using `staticDir` on the language level would replace the global value.
+Note 1
+: The **2** (can be a number between 0 and 10) in `staticDir2` is
+  added to tell Hugo that you want to **add** this directory to the
+  global set of static directories defined using `staticDir`. Using
+  `staticDir` on the language level would replace the global value (as
+  can be seen in the Norwegian site case).
+
+Note 2
+: The example above is a [multihost setup][]. In a regular setup, all
+  the static directories will be available to all sites.
 
 
-**Note:** The example above is a [multihost setup](/content-management/multilingual/#configure-multilingual-multihost). In a regular setup, all the static directories will be available to all sites.
+[site config]: /getting-started/configuration/#all-configuration-settings
+[multihost setup]: /content-management/multilingual/#configure-multilingual-multihost
diff --git a/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md b/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md
index ea21fa5ce..7b0ca2a01 100644
--- a/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md
+++ b/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ sitemap
 : Default [sitemap configuration](/templates/sitemap-template/#configure-sitemap-xml).
 
 staticDir ("static")
-: Relative directory from where Hugo reads static files.
+: A directory or a list of directories from where Hugo reads [static files][static-files].
 
 stepAnalysis (false)
 : Display memory and timing of different steps of the program.
@@ -405,3 +405,4 @@ Hugo v0.20 introduced the ability to render your content to multiple output form
 [templates]: /templates/
 [toml]: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
 [yaml]: http://yaml.org/spec/
+[static-files]: /content-management/static-files/