Compass is a Jekyll theme designed with something very specific in mind: to be a simple and elegant personal landing page that can be easily deployed to GitHub Pages.
- Start by installing Bundler
gem install bundler
- Fork the Compass repository
- Clone the repository you just forked:
git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USER/compass
- Then run
bundle install
to get Jekyll and all the dependencies. - Edit
_config.yml
as needed. - Run the Jekyll server with
bundle exec jekyll serve
- Go to
http://localhost:4000
- Export reasonably sized photo
- Add to
images/photography/thumbnails
- Import in Photoshop and export tiny compressed version with size 42x42px to
/images/photography/compressed
- Run
images/photography/processPhotos.py
(generates image name with aspect ratio)