#Hux Blog
- Big Improvement to the Navigation Menu (especially in Android): Dropping the old, stuttering, low-performance Bootstrap collapse.js, replaced with an own wrote, jank free navbar menu in a pretty high-performance implementation of Google Material Design.
- Brand new Keynote Layout is provided for easily posting beautiful HTML presentations you have created with this blog
- We now support a clean and gorgeous SideBar for displaying more info
- Friends is also added as a common feature of blog help you do SEO
- Full-feature Tag support
- Mobile first user experience optimization
- Typographic optimization for Chinese Fonts
- Network optimizaition for China, dropping Google webfont, using local CDN
- Using Github Flavored Markdown
- Using Baidu, Tencent/QQ analysis (TODO: support GA)
- Using DuoShuo as the Disqus-like third party discussion system
- Feel free to fork. Appreciated if you keep the author & fork link in the footer
- Give it a Star if you like or fork this theme ;)
- Any problem or requirement, just open an issue here and I will help you.
- 如果有需要，可以更新一篇中文文档 ;)
If you have jekyll installed, simply run jekyll serve in Command Line
and preview the themes in your browser. You can use jekyll serve --watch to watch for changes in the source files as well.
You can easily get started by modifying _config.yml:
# Site settings
title: Hux Blog # title of your website..
description: ..... # ...
# SNS settings
github_username: huxpro # modify this account to yours
weibo_username: huxpro # and the links in footer woule be auto-updated.
# Build settings
# paginate: 10 # nums of posts in one page
# Duoshuo settings # Please set your own DuoShuo account.
useDuoshuo: true # Comment and Share
useShare: true # use Comment only. seeing the Share component is depend on Comment so we can NOT use share only.
There are more options you can check out in the Jekyll - Official Site, or you can directly dive into code to find more.
Feel free to checkout Markdown files in the _posts/, you will quickly realized how to post your articles with magic Markdown plus this theme:
---
layout: post
title: "Hello 2015"
subtitle: "Hello World, Hello Blog"
date: 2015-01-29 12:00:00
author: "Hux"
header-img: "img/post-bg-2015.jpg"
tags:
- Life
---
Change header images of any pages or any posts is pretty easy as mentioned above. But, thanks to issue #6 (in Chinese) asked, how to make it looks great?
Well...it is actually a design issue, not a coding stuff. It is better that you have basic design knowledge, but not is ok, let me told you how to make it well-designed:
Seeing the title text above image is white, the image should be dark to emphasize the contract. so we can easily add a black overlay with fews of opacity, which is depends on the brightness of the original images you used. you can process it in Photoshop, Sketch etc.
In technical views, it can be done with CSS. However, the opacity of the black overlay is really hard to assigned, every image has different brightness so the degree it should be adjusted is different so it is impossible to hard code it.
If you wanna change code yourself, a Grunt environment is also included. (Thanks to Clean Blog.)
There are a number of tasks it performs like minification of the JavaScript, compiling of the LESS files, adding banners to keep the Apache 2.0 license intact, and watching for changes. Run the grunt default task by entering grunt into your command line which will build the files. You can use grunt watch if you are working on the JavaScript or the LESS.
Try to understand code in _include/, _layouts/, then you can modify Jekyll Liquid template directly to do more creative customization.
Seeing more information may be necessary for you to display, from V1.1, a clean, gorgeous SideBar is added for you, which provide more area for displaying possible modules including Featured Tags, Mini About Me, Friends etc. You can enable (it is default enable) this feature by simply config:
# Sidebar settings
sidebar: true
sidebar-feature-tags: true
sidebar-about-description: "your description here"
sidebar-avatar: /img/avatar-hux.jpg # use absolute URL.
We default support Featured Tags, Mini About Me, Friends these three modules and you can add your own. The Sidebar is naturally responsive and would be push to bottom in a small screen (<768px), the Short About Me would be also hidden in small screen.
you can disable Featured Tags by removing sidebar-featured-tags and disable Mini About Me by removing sidebar-about-description plus sidebar-avatar. More details of Friends are talking below.
Friends is a very common feature of blog seeing the SEO, so I add it in V1.1 release to help that. One of the awesome point of Friends is that it can live without enable sidebar. The Friends would display in the bottom auto when sidebar set to false.
You can just add your friends information in _config.yml with a familiar JSON syntax and everything is done, very easy:
# Friends
friends: [
{
title: "Foo Blog",
href: "http://foo.github.io/"
},
{
title: "Bar Blog",
href: "http://bar.github.io"
}
]
There is a increasing tendency to use Open Web technology to create keynotes, presentations, like Reveal.js, Impress.js, Slides, Prezi etc. I consider a modern blog should have abilities to post these HTML based presentation easily also abilities to play it directly.
Under the hood, a iframe is used to include webpage from outer source, so the only things left is to give a url in the front-matter:
---
layout: keynote
iframe: "http://huangxuan.me/js-module-7day/"
---
The iframe will be automatically resized to adapt different form factors also the device orientation. A padding is left to imply user there has more content below, also ensure there is a area user can scrolled in mobile device seeing most of the keynote framework prevent the browser default scroll behavior.
This theme is forked from IronSummitMedia/startbootstrap-clean-blog-jekyll
Thanks Jekyll and Github Pages!