myblog.github.io

A minimal Jekyll setup ready to run

What is this?

This is a skeleton for a jekyll-based blog, ready to run on github pages, say on your-username.github.io.

How to use it?

1. Fork this repo to your user repository (I did it for max-mathieu.github.io)
2. Edit the _config.yml file (you can even do it directly on github), to set your blog title, description and twitter/github usernames
3. Edit the about.md file and be creative
4. Add posts to the _posts folder. You can look at 2017-1-1-Sample-Post for an example

Some built-in features

Minimal but responsive design

It's not a killer design, but that works. You can edit colors by editing _sass/_variables.scss

Tags

By default, there's a "tags" page that lists all tags and the posts using it. Just add tags to the front matter of your posts

Navigation

To show a page in the top nav, add nav_index to the front matter of the pages. This allows you to toggle if they show in the nav, and at which position

More help

Local dev (useful to test layouts/scss changes)

Just follow these steps

Resources

• Github flavored markdown
• Jekyll docs

Acknowledgments

• Jekyll Now for a great reference to start this project