Solid. A Bootstrap theme for Jekyll.

This is a Jekyll port of the Solid theme by blacktie.co. Visit the live demo for a preview.

Usage

This theme can be customized, built and published straight from GitHub, thanks to GitHub Pages. A local installation of Jekyll isn't even necessary!

Fork this repository to get started.

Hosting locally

Follow the instructions in the Jekyll documentation, with a few tweaks:

1. Check if this issue with ruby 2.4.0 and json 1.8.3 is resolved. It can be resolved by downgrading to an earlier version of ruby (Homebrew has 2.2.0 available)
2. Install a local version of ruby

• brew install ruby
• brew install homebrew/versions/ruby22 if above issue not resolved

Once the ruby stuff is sorted out, run this from the project root:

gem install jekyll bundler
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

You can now view the local version at http://127.0.0.1:4000/

Customize

Most general settings and data like site name, colors, address, etc. can be configured and changed right in the main config file: /_config.yml The content of the Home page can be changed here: /home.html The content of the About page can be changed here: /about.html The content of the Portfolio page can be changed here:/portfolio.html The content of the Contact page can be changed here:/contact.html

Add content

Delete the demo content and publish your own content.

Blog post

Create a Blog post by creating a file called yyyy-mm-dd-name-of-post-like-this.markdown in the /_posts/ directory with the following template:

---
layout: post          #important: don't change this
title: "Name of post like this"
date: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
author: Name
categories:
- category1
- category2
- ...
img: post01.jpg       #place image (850x450) with this name in /assets/img/blog/
thumb: thumb01.jpg    #place thumbnail (70x70) with this name in /assets/img/blog/thumbs/
---
This text will appear in the excerpt "post preview" on the Blog page that lists all the posts.
<!--more-->
This text will not be shown in the excerpt because it is after the excerpt separator.

Project

Create a Project post to go in your Portfolio by creating a file called yyyy-mm-dd-name-of-the-project.markdown in the /_projects/ directory with the following template:

---
layout: project       #important: don't change this
title:  "Name of the project"
date: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
author: Name
img: portfolio_10.jpg #place image (600x450) with this name in /assets/img/project/
thumb: thumb02.jpg
carousel:
- single01.jpg        #place image (1280x600) with this name in /assets/img/project/carousel/
- single02.jpg  
- ...
client: Company XY
website: http://www.internet.com
---
#### This is a heading
This is a regular paragraph. Write as much as you like.

Question entry

Create a Question entry (that is listed in the Frequently Asked section on the Home page) in this directory by creating a file called yyyy-mm-dd-do-i-have-a-question.markdown in the /_questions/ directory with the following template:

---
layout: question
title:  "Do I have a question?"
date: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
author: First Last
---
#### Can I use this theme for my website?
Of course you can!

Publish

To publish with GitHub Pages, simply create a branch called gh-pagesin your repository. GitHub will build your site automatically and publish it at http://yourusername.github.io/repositoryname/.
If there are problems with loading assets like CSS files and images, make sure that the baseurl in the _config.ymlis set correctly (it should say /repositoryname).

If you want to host your website somewhere else than GitHub (or just would like to customize and build your site locally), please check out the Jekyll documentation.