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Lightload Jekyll Theme
A crisp, clean, pure Jekyll theme free of gaudy icons and superfluous imagery. Colors and fonts are customizable.
Demo
A sample site with in-example documentation is available here.
Installation
Prerequisites:
- Ruby
- Jekyll
Step-by-step:
- Clone or fork a copy from github at github.com/naum/lightload
cd ~/thatPlaceYouPutItjekyll buildjekyll serve- Point your browser to
localhost:4000
Site directory structure
Pages go in the root directory, articles go into the wiki/ folder.
Navigation Menu
Specify the contents of the navigation menu by editing _data/navigation.yml.
Font & color customization
See Theme Configuration for details.
Custom Liquid Tags
Have added, er borrowed, a few Liquid template tags
{% newthought "When in the course of human events" %}
{% newthought "When in the course of human events" %}
{% fullwidth "assets/image/platonic-solids.jpg" "The 5 Platonic Solids" %}
{% fullwidth "assets/image/platonic-solids.jpg" "The 5 Platonic Solids" %}
Notes about quotes in Liquid tags
The custom Liquid tags are designed to simplify writing content and displaying it with the tufte-css look. Here are a few notes on using quotes inside the tags.
Liquid tags work best when you use double quotes to surround the tag parameters, as you'll see in all the examples below.
You can use single quotes and apostrophes in the text inside tag parameters. Liquid will automatically process them correctly. For example:
{% newthought "I'm so smart!" %}will render asI'm so smart!To use a double quote in the text inside a tag parameter, escape the double quote by placing a backslash directly in front of it, for example:
{% newthought "\"I'm so smart!\", she thought." %}will render as"I'm so smart!", she thought.You can use HTML inside of a tag parameter. (However, you cannot use Markdown inside a tag parameter) You can use either single quotes, or escaped double quotes in the HTML.
