Louie

A jekyll portfolio generator (that looks awesome). Louie is free, lightweight, and customizable as a blog, archive, or portfolio.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "louie"

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

theme: louie

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install louie

Usage

Basic configurations

Here are a few general info fields to populate your new site right away.

title: HTML <title>, which is overridden by post/page title if exists
baseurl: ""
favicon: "/path/to"
g_analytics: UA-12345678-1

header: name of your site here
desc: >
  description of your site, can be a quick bio if it's a portfolio. It supports HTML so add your links, imgs, whatever!

Social media links

To add links to your social sites (linkedin, twitter, etc) below the bio, create a file named social.yml in your _data folder (which you may not have created yet). Inside it, follow the following format:

- title: Twitter
  url: http://twitter.com/lllychen
- title: Github
  url: http://github.com/lllychen/louie
# and so on...

Column names

The names for each column is defaulted to Title, Date, and Category, respectively. However, this can be changed according to use cases. For instance, an archive of classic literature may need to adjust accordingly:

post_title: Story
post_date: Year
post_cat: Genre

Date format

The default format for dates is %b %-d, %Y, which outputs Jan 1, 2017. However, you can customize it according to this in _config.yml such as follows:

date_format: "%m/%d/%Y"

Post variables

You can include the following variables in the front matter for posts:

title:  Berry Perfume
category: Narrative
img: [ OPTIONAL: url or path in directory ]

The img variable is used to produce a randomly placed image associated with this post when you hover over it. If you omit it, there simply won't be a picture and all is still well.

If you prefer not to have the category in your post permalink, follow the guidelines here to remove it among other configurations.

Post pagination

To include previous and next links at the bottom of a post page, leave the following setting to true. Otherwise, change to false.

prev-next: true

License

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

Credit

Stories created and collected by Story Bytes.

Images collected by Unsplash