minimal-course

This is a very simple jekyll theme for creating course websites. It does not incorporate blog functionality (other than through standard jekyll routines). The goal is to have a simple navigation bar on every page.

The site includes Bootstrap and Fontawesome, so any standard Bootstrap components are available as are the Free FA icons.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "jekyll-remote-theme"

And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

remote-theme: dajmcdon/minimal-course

GitHub pages

You can use this theme if using GitHub pages.

Add this line to your _config.yml:

remote_theme: dajmcdon/minimal-course

Usage

Navigation

Navigation is implemented in the _config.yml file. The intention here is that if you have different course components in different repos, you can share the same menu bar.

Colors

Everything is standard bootstrap with the exception of the navigation bar. Use theme-bg to set the color. Dark colors are best combined setting navbar: dark which results in white text. Otherwise, navbar: light goes well with light background colors.

Fonts

By default, Google fonts are used. See https://fonts.google.com to select a font of your choice.

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

It is originally derived from https://github.com/granbom/jekyll-theme-bootstrap4-navbar-cdn.