Preambel

Duo Color is a template for the static site generator Middleman and its blog extension.

It features a responsive HTML5 CSS3 based design based on Bootstrap which makes it easy to modify.

Live Demo

• http://rriemann.github.io/middleman-blog-template-duocolor/

Features

This template incorporates a lot of features:

• LaTeX formulas using MathJax, see demo
• syntax highlighting using pygmentize-compatible Rouge which looks exactly like embedded gists, see demo
• Middleman uses the kramdown markdown parser by default, which makes it very to use table of contents (TOC), see original post
• Bower is used to ease the updating of javascript libs (modernizer, jquery)
• this templates comes not only with a robots.txt, but also with a humans.txt
• to help search engines to find your content, a sitemap.txt and sitemap.xml is generated for you
• blog search provided by DuckDuckGo
• you do not only get one feed for your blog posts, but also feeds separted by tags (middleman proxies to the win)
• all css files and javascript files are jointly minified to save bandwith and elements to loads
• nice icon fonts Fontello (see demo and Glyphicons at your disposal
• disqus recent comments for your blog as aside
• disqus number of comments per post on your blog post overview page

There have been made some attempts to increase the privacy of visitors:

• we host most js and css ourself (not the mathjax one, if you use it; not the Google Webfont)
• we use DuckDuckGo instead of google
• For sure, you better don't use Google Analytics. If you do, the provided script lets google remove the last bits of the IP address.
• Be aware that embedding widgets (G+, Twitter, Gist) will reveal information about your visitors to these services.

The template is somehow prepared for hosting on github, that's why the errorpage will be named 404.html. If you have a custom domain, you may want to add a CNAME file to the source directory.

Checklist

• read the Middleman docs
• check data/site.yml
• check config.rb
• check updates of javascript lists: bower install, bower update
• decide, if you want to add a CNAME file if you use github
• if you want to use more than one language, consider which naming scheme you want to use: If you tweak it the right way, you can use Apaches content-negotiation feature to direct your visitors directly to the appropiate landing page using their browser language settings.
• setup your .htaccess file to use the error page 404.html or change its name
• there is a placeholder picture in the file 404.html – take another one!
• The duckduckgo results page is customized by some post variables next to the search string. Have a look in _site-search.slim to make it fit your needs
• add the missing lines to ease your deployment: middleman-deploy
• comment in one of the tracking snippets if you want to use Google or Piwik Analytics

Thanks

• http://noisepng.com/ for providing some noize :p
• https://github.com/shkm/middleman-neato for the bower setup
• http://binary-btemplates.blogspot.fr/ for the initial design idea, whoever the realization is totally different (read better ;))

Issues and Comments

If you find a bug, please issue a bug report right at the Github project. Patches are most welcome by push requests, but I don't mind emails as well. You find my contact details in the section below.

Author

Mail

: robert@riemann.cc
pgp fingerprint: F6A9 332D AA28 625E 59A8 F758 7BF6 0F4A 861B C3A3

Twitter

: @rriemann_eu {: style="margin-top:0" }

GitHub

: rriemann

About This Template

This template was originally developed for my personal blog http://blog.riemann.cc

License

Template Duo Color (c) 2014 by Robert Riemann robert@riemann.cc

Except where otherwise noted, Template Duo Color is licensed under the MIT license.

You should have received a copy of the license along with this work. If not, see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT