A more beautiful Jekyll blog theme

This is a skeleton of Jekyll blog modified from the Beautiful Jekyll blog theme. As a quick start, simply clone this and start modifying _config.yml to fill in placeholders and add posts to _posts/.

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Colour scheme and typefaces can be changed by replacing the settings in the top portion of css/main.scss.

Each post should contain the YAML frontmatter, which contains the following in particular:

• layout: should be post or page for most of the case
• title and subtitle: as page title (required) and subtitle (optional)
• date: most parsable string are accepted. If not exist, date will be deduced from file name
• tags: list of tags associated to that page
• titlebanner: path to the background image for title portion of that page. Possibly an array for looping within a set of images randomly. May also carry an image description for each image by appending the description string after colon to the url
• show_avatar: boolean. If false explicitly, no avatar will be shown on the naviation bar on that page

Common tips for hosting in Github

• Github page will not process through Jekyll if .nojekyll file is present
• Github help on pages: https://help.github.com/categories/github-pages-basics/
• Hosting with custom domain: https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/