Jekyll templates

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Overview

Jekyll Theme shops
Jekyll.tips Templates
Responsive?
Gulp example
More on front-end styling

This article lists and evaluates templates for Jekyll, which drives GitHub.io static websites.

The structure of content (.md files) created for display using Jekyll makes it easy (with only a few edits) to switch the site to use any number of other Jekyll themes / templates.

Jekyll Theme shops

My personal favorite is:

jekyll.tips/templates by Mike Neumegen (@mikeneumegen, CEO of @CloudCannonApp, a SaaS services provider for Jekyll)

Within the Jekyll repository on GitHub:

github.com/jekyll/jekyll/wiki/Themes

Premium (paid) themes so you get updates and support, for less than $30.

jekyllthemes.io

This is an affiliate for other sites offering the same themes for less.

jekyllthemes.org

Jekyll.tips Templates

jekyll.tips/templates lists templates available at https://github.com/CloudCannon.

Bakery-store is in GitHub but not shown in the gallery.

Responsive?

To see responsive websites, get to it quicker on your mobile smartphone QR code is provided for you.

Themes from Michael Rose

Content on this website was created by editing markdown text (index.md files) stored on GitHub.com. The HTML sent to your browser for display is generated from markdown using Ruby running Jekyll 3.0 rendering modifications of the minimal-mistakes theme from GitHub by Michael Rose.

Michael also created the skinny-bones-jekyll theme demo forkable from GitHub. It features more use of graphics, and allows for localization.

Micheal blogs about his themes at https://mademistakes.com/articles/using-jekyll-2016/

A feature comparison:

Feature	HPSTR	Minimal	Skinny	Simple
External links	YES	-	-	-
Floating menu	YES	-	-	-
Gallery layout	-	-	YES	-
Localization	-	-	YES	-
Multiple authors	-	YES	-	-
Page TOC	-	YES	-	-
Pages/Articles	-	*	YES	YES
Posts	YES	YES	YES	YES
Pagination	YES	-	-	-
Rakefile.rb	YES	-	-	-
Reading time	YES	-	-	-
Tags list	YES	-	-	-
Site search	-	-	-	YES
Social icons only	-	-	-	YES
Social names	YES	-	-	-
Timezones	YES	-	-	-

All the themes feature:

YAML front matter in index.md files processed by Jekyll
404.md
feed.xml generation
Disqus support
Use of SASS
Theme setup page from the main menu / tab
Links to major social sites

Installation and Generation

Michael Rose presents a concise description of how to install the minimal-mistakes theme. This post augments and clarifies it.

Begin by making a folder and populating it on my local machine.

There is both a Master branch and a Develop branch.

I don’t care about all the change history, so I click “Download ZIP” and unzip it into that folder rather than:

git clone https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes.git

Grunt example

After downloading, have Maven pull in dependencies based on the Gemfile:

bundle install

This causes the list of dependencies in the Gemfile to be downloaded.

Behind the scenes is a running of the Gruntfie.js that comes with the theme. It defines the parameters of various tasks that are downloaded:

clean clears files and folders.
jshint validates files with JSHint, based on the .jshintrc configuration file at the root folder.
uglify minfies files with UglifyJS.
watch runs tasks whenever watched files change.
imagemin minifies PNG graphics files.
grunt-svgmin minifies SVG graphics files.

NOTE: File names beginning with a dot are hidden.

Gulp example

https://github.com/kriasoft/static-site-starter uses a gulpfile.js

More on front-end styling

This is one of several topics:

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