Holo Alfa is a minimalist, mobile first Jekyll theme with focus on readability and content. Created for free and fun by Stijn.
Feature highlights v1.0.0
- Mobile first design
- Extensive content styling
- Responsive video’s (using FitVids.JS)
- Support for authors and guest authors
- Read time on articles
- Disqus comments
- Automatic og metadata
- Automatic archive page (without plugins)
- Automatic sitemap en RSS feed
- Contact page (with working email form)
- A lot of (optional) customization options (all in
_config.yml
)
And much more.
Getting started
If you’re new to Jekyll, check out http://jekyllrb.com/ and read up on Jekyll. It’s worth it.
If you run one of the latest versions of Jekyll, this theme will work with no* problems.
Installing
As simple as forking the repository, and then clone it so you can edit the files locally.
Configuration
Edit _config.yml
!
You can find _config.yml
in your site’s root directory. This
configuration file contains some necessary settings and some optional
customization settings. All settings are explained in _config.yml
itself.
There are some customizations that can’t be done in _config.yml
.
These include:
- Editing the About, Contact and Archive page.
- Adding or removing pages from the navigation. This can be done in
\_includes\navigation.html
. - The “thanks” page after a message has been send through the contact page:
thanks.md
- The gradient on cover images:
\_includes\gradient.css
(this is explained in_config.yml
).
Also make sure to replace the placeholder favicons and the
\img\og-image.jpg
with your own.
Start the Jekyll server
Run this command at the root of your site:
$ jekyll serve
To run Jekyll in a way that matches the GitHub Pages build server, run Jekyll with Bundler. Use the command
bundle exec jekyll serve
.
When everything is OK, your site should now be available at
http://localhost:4000
.
That’s it.