{ Personal } Jekyll Theme

{ Personal } is a free responsive blog with minimal aesthetic, about you. You can watch it live here.

mobile

desktop

Deploy on Github Pages for free

Fork the repository and:

  1. Rename the forked repository to yourusername.github.io
  2. Update the url in _config.yml to be yourusername.github.io
  3. Commit the changes and after the Github Action of your commit succeeds, you should see your website at https://yourusername.github.io

How to run locally

You can use Docker to run the website to avoid installing any dependencies to your local environment. To do so, run:

docker-compose up --build

Alternatively, you can run the website locally by installing ruby (3.2.2) and then installing the project dependencies by running:

bundle install

And then start serving the website:

jekyll serve --watch --livereload

Documentation

The theme contains documentation in the form of blog posts.

Features

  • Fork of Timeline (mashup of Grayscale by Start Bootstrap and Agency Jekyll Theme)
    • Modern and minimal design
      • Responsive templates for home page, blog archive and posts. Looks great on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices
    • Timeline
      • Tell your story so far with a sleek timeline of dates, pictures and descriptions
        • White on black text, making the reading experience tireless
  • Customization and full control of your website and blog through the site config
  • Blogging functionality
    • Preview of the latest post in the home page
    • Archive page
    • Syntax highlighting
    • Hashtags
    • Categories
    • Disqus comments
    • Share buttons
    • RSS feed
  • Google analytics
  • Cookies consent
  • Protection from email harvesting
  • Sitemap
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