starterlog-theme

A minimalist jekyll theme designed for technical writers

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starterlog-theme

Welcome to the Starter Log Jekyll theme!

This minimalist theme for technical writing and ranting was handcrafted by the Hobbyists at Copyleft.io so that we could share our inner daemons :) We've open sourced it so that others may also use if for personal and professional projects.

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MPL-2.0 License.

Dependencies

Ruby Version = 2.3.0p0 Bundler Version 1.12.5 Jekyll Version = 3.2.1

Getting Started

To demo and experiment with this code, simply install the dependencies and clone the project to your local workspace. Run bundle install to pull in any gem dependencies and then run jekyll serve – this directory is setup just like a Jekyll site!

Installation

To use this theme in your existing Jekyll project... Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "starterlog-theme"

And add this line to your Jekyll site:

theme: starterlog-theme

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install starterlog-theme

Usage

The Starter Log Theme is great for personal and professional projects. It provides a custom boostrap theme and color scheme, layouts, includes, static pages, assets, and lunr search functionality that you can use to build out a fully functional jekyll project that compliments your technical writing...

Core components such as bootstrap, font-awesome, jquery, and lunr.js were used to develop the theme, and make it very simple to extend and build upon.

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  _includes             ## HEAD, HEADER AND FOOTER (e.g. Navbar)
    footer.html
    head.html
    header.html

  _layouts              ## LAYOUTS DIRECTORY
    default.html
    page.html
    post.html

  _pages                ## PAGES DIRECTORY FOR STATIC PAGES (html)

  assets                ## FONTS, IMAGES, SCRIPTS, STYLES
    fonts
    images
    scripts
    styles

Screenshots

### Home Page ![Alt text](https://github.com/Copyleft-io/starterlog-theme/blob/master/docs/images/home.png "Home Page")

### Palette ![Alt text](https://github.com/Copyleft-io/starterlog-theme/blob/master/docs/images/palette.png "Palette")

### Custom Bootstrap Theme ![Alt text](https://github.com/Copyleft-io/starterlog-theme/blob/master/docs/images/theme.png "Custom Theme")

### Lunr Search ![Alt text](https://github.com/Copyleft-io/starterlog-theme/blob/master/docs/images/search.png "Lunr Search")

### Search Results ![Alt text](https://github.com/Copyleft-io/starterlog-theme/blob/master/docs/images/search-results.png "Search Results")

### Static Page Templates ![Alt text](https://github.com/Copyleft-io/starterlog-theme/blob/master/docs/images/about.png "About")

## Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Copyleft-io/starterlog-theme. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Development

To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install.

You theme is setup just like a normal Jelyll site! To test your theme, run jekyll serve and open your browser at http://localhost:4000. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to this theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.

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