Science and Technology Blog template

Installation instructions

1. Install Jekyll: The instructions are given in post
2. Edit _config.yml file:
   • Change baseurl to your folder name.
   • Change the respective URLs and variable names.
   • If you want to enable disqus comments, change dqs_shortname to your forum's disqus_shortname. Otherwise, turn comments to false.
3. You might want to change the URLs in _includes/link.html file.

Now your science and technology blog is up and running. Happy blogging!

Notes

• Make sure you commit changes to the branch from which github pages are published.
• I have only tested this repository on Ubuntu 16.04. If everything doesn't work smoothly, you'll probably have to look it up.

About

This is a simple template for creating a Science and Technology Blog.

The code base is inspired from Emerald repository.

The template contain following features:

Jekyll-based website

• This code-base is meant to host on github pages.
• Github pages uses Jekyll that can convert your markdown pages into beautiful looking blog pages without needing to write cumbersome HTML code.
• Once you set up the site, blogging becomes as fast as using any online service such as Wordpress, Blogger, etc.

Free website publishing with Github-pages

• Since Github public repositories are free, you do not need to pay a cent to anyone for publishing your blog.

Commenting with Disqus

• The template has included Disqus comments. So, if enabled, your readers can comment on any of your posts.
• This also makes sharing your writings on social platforms easy.
• Disqus basic account is for free and avails you with most of its features.

Latex rendering

• If you have a scientific mind and you do not shy away from equations, the website is MathJax enabled. You can simply type your math equations in Latex format.

Code

• You can also demonstrate your code in code blocks.

Contribution

If you want to contribute to the repository to improve the code, feel free to submit a pull request.