Lagom-ier

Lovingly based off Matt Swanson's Lagom jekyll theme. I've slowly been modifying the fork to a point where it made more sense to just have it be separated from the original - but without this I'd never have even gotten into the Github Pages game.

Lagom is a Swedish word with no direct English equivalent, meaning "just the right amount"

Lagom, a Jekyll blog theme with just the right amount of style.

Extracted lovingly from http://mdswanson.com for your enjoyment!

• Responsive, based on Skeleton
• Font Awesome for icons
• Open Sans from Google web fonts
• Built-in Atom feed

I've attempted to move all the SASS variables and hardcoded text into the theme.yml file for a more pleasant updating experience. There may be a couple that are missing, as this is currently a work in progress.

Action Shots

Todo

Installation

Forking

• Fork this repository
• Clone it: git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USER/lagom
• Install the GitHub Pages gem (includes Jekyll): bundle install
• Run the jekyll server: jekyll serve

You should have a server up and running locally at http://localhost:4000.

Remote-theme

If you're not interested in making any changes to the theme directly, you can update the _config.yml file in your repository to replace theme: ... with remote-theme: kenjdavidson/lagomier. You can then override any specific files to provide your own implementation.

Combination

You can also complete the installation using a combination of the two - Fork repo to your own account and use the remote-theme: youraccount/lagom to configure.

Customization

Next you'll want to change a few things. Most of them can be changed directly in theme.yml. That's where you can add your social links, change the accent color, stuff like that.

There's a few other places that you'll want to change, too:

Custom Domain

CNAME: If you're using this on GitHub Pages with a custom domain name, you'll want to change this to be the domain you're going to use. All that should be in here is a domain name on the first line and nothing else (like: example.com).

Fav Icon

favicon.png: This is the icon in your browser's address bar. You should change it to whatever you'd like.

Site logo

The site logo is has a number of different configuration options, in the following priority:

• Adding the theme.logo configuration item to the _data/theme.yml file.
• Adding a gravatar link/id to the _data/theme.yml file.
• Adding the file logo.png to you repository.

Site logo can be customized by overriding the assets/css/all.css and providing custom styles for img[#avatar] { }

Site Content (Text)

The following text content can be updated in theme.yml instead of searching through template/include files. You can always override each of the template/include files, but I've tried to make the theme.yml gospel:

Deployment

You should deploy with GitHub Pages - it's just easier.

All you should have to do is rename your repository on GitHub to be username.github.io. Since everything is on the gh-pages branch, you should be able to see your new site at http://username.github.io.

Local Deployment

$ bundle exec jekyll serve

Licensing

MIT with no added caveats, so feel free to use this on your site without linking back to me or using a disclaimer or anything silly like that.

Contact

Feel free to open issues if you run into trouble or have suggestions. Pull Requests always welcome.