Homepage for my website.
This site is built using Jekyll. I used to use this awesome theme Swiss but I got a little frustrated that on desktop all you could see above the fold was the title. So I wrote my own theme.
The theme is built in the most budget way possible. It consists of some html templates in the _layouts directory, a homepage (index.html), and css from the framework tachyons framework. It is worth saying that using tachyons was wonderful and I coded the site up in 3 or 4 hours using it.
The site design is based around a couple of examples in the tachyons component library, which was incredibly helpful (and very elegant).
I may iterate on the theme a little bit. Some things I'm thinking about adding are:
- pagination on the homepage
- a menu (I'm really not sure I need this but if I released this as a gem I might)
- a footer (not sure for what)
That's all I can really think ofthat would be useful. If I do that I might release it as a gem based theme.
It is hosted using GitHub pages and is served from the gh-pages branch of this repo - so that's the branch that needs to be active.
Create a new markdown file in _posts using the title format YYYY-mm-dd-title-of-post.markdown (or duplicate an existing one and change the name).
Set the front matter (look at an existing post) and off you go.
$ git add YYYY-mm-dd-title-of-post.markdown
$ git commit
$ git push origin gh-pages
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