Jekyll Yōuyǎ theme

Yōuyǎ is an elegant profile theme for Jekyll.

Demo

You can see a live demo of the site in action here.

Get started

1. In your own Jekyll website, add it to your Gemfile

   gem "youya", github: "smrfeld/jekyll-theme-youya", branch: "main"
   

   and run

   bundle install
   

   or just put this whole repo in your _theme/youya directory.
2. Finally set the theme in your _config.yml file:

   theme: youya
   

Now you can set the following required fields (see also the example _config.yml in the test folder):

• URL of site:

  url: https://smrfeld.github.io/jekyll-theme-youya
  

• Background images: The background image is read from a folder under assets/img in your site loads a random image each time: 0000.jpeg,0001.jpeg,.... In your _config.yml:

  background_img_folder: background_imgs
  no_background_images: 2
  

• Logo images: both black and white logo images should be provided, referring to assets/img:

  logo_black: logo_black.png
  logo_white: logo_white.png
  

• Favicon in assets folder should be 32x32 pixels:

  favicon: favicon.png
  

• Menu: this is the main navigation menu:

  menu:
    - title: Home
      local_url: index.html
    - title: Page
      local_url: page.html
    - title: Reading
      local_url: reading.html
    - title: Writing
      local_url: writing.html
    - title: Photography
      local_url: photography.html
  

  You can also specify a remote_url instead of a local_url - local_url is relative to the top-level directory of your site.

• About section text and image (referring to assets/img folder):

  about: "Hello World"
  about_img: profile.jpg
  

• Social links to GitHub, LinkedIn, Google Scholar:

  github_url: https://github.com
  linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com
  google_scholar_url: https://scholar.google.com
  

Features

• Profile with sections for:
  • Code with links to GitHub
  • Academic papers with links to arXvi & descriptions
  • Projects, with links to GitHub & arXiv
  • Reading book list
  • Writing & blog entries
  • Photography
  • About
• Random background from a collection of images.
• Custom menus for each page.
• Social links.
• Easily customizable.

Dev: tests

Install theme in the main directory:

bundle install

Then build the site from the test directory:

cd test
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

On every change to the template, you must rm Gemfile.lock and re-run bundle install.

Dev: releasing

Run bundle lock --add-platform x86_64-linux for GitHub actions.

Customization

The site is broken into many reusable sections in the _include directory. You can easily make your own _layouts. Refer to:

• Examples in the _layouts directory, and
• The liquid documentation.