plain-html-blog

plain-html-blog is a very clean, minimal Jekyll blog that works without CSS. It was inspired by websites which (for valid reasons) still make minimal use of styling with CSS and the like.

You can see it live right here: https://sebbas.org

Installation

1. Fork this repository
2. Clone it: git clone [email protected]:yourusername/plain-html-blog.git
3. Install ruby things: bundle install (if this doesn't work, look into installing Bundler)
4. Start it up: jekyll serve -w

You should have a server up and running locally at http://localhost:4000.

Optional

If you would like to have the updated field (used to show the last modification date in the footer) in the YAML front matter to update automatically each time the page was modified and you make a commit, then symlink the executable pre-commit script (scripts/pre-commit) to your .git/hooks. You can do this by running

ln -s -f ../../scripts/pre-commit .git/hooks/pre-commit

Customization

1. _config.yml: Your email, personal information and usernames should go here.
2. CNAME: Want to use a custom domain? Just place yours in here.
3. images/: If you have a photo or icon you'd like to use I recommend generating favicon, apple-touch-icon.png and the like with an online icon generator (just google for one). Place all generated images and files in this directory and, if necessary, adapt the paths in _includes/head.html

Deployment

This blog is all set for use with Github (it's not using any additional Jekyll plugins). So all you have to do is rename your repository to username.github.io. Your site will be available at https://yourusername.github.io