Pixyll
Pixyll is a simple, beautiful theme for Jekyll that emphasizes content rather than aesthetic fluff. It's mobile first, fluidly responsive, and delightfully lightweight.
It's pretty minimal, but leverages large type and drastic contrast to make a statement, on all devices.
This Jekyll theme was crafted with <3 by John Otander (@4lpine).
Getting Started
If you're completely new to Jekyll, I recommend checking out the documentation at http://jekyllrb.com or there's a tutorial by Smashing Magazine.
Installing Jekyll
If you don't have Jekyll already installed, you will need to go ahead and do that.
$ gem install jekyll
Fork, then clone
Fork the repo, and then clone it so you've got the code locally.
Jekyll Serve
Then, start the Jekyll Server. I always like to give the --watch option so it updates the generated HTML when I make changes.
$ jekyll serve --watch
Now you can navigate to localhost:4000 in your browser to see the site.
Using Github Pages
You can host your Jekyll site for free with Github Pages. Click here for more information.
Contact Form
If you'd like to keep the contact form, which uses http://forms.brace.io/, you will need to update the email address.
Currently, the contact.md has the following:
<form action="https://forms.brace.io/johnotander@icloud.com" method="POST" class="form-stacked form-light">Where it says johnotander@icloud.com, you will need to change that to the email that you wish to have the form data sent to. It will require you to fill the form out when you push it live for the first time so that you can confirm your email.
Put in a Pixyll Plug
If you want to give credit to the Pixyll theme with a link to http://pixyll.com or my personal website http://johnotander.com somewhere, that'd be awesome. No worries if you don't.
Enjoy
I hope you enjoy using Pixyll. If you encounter any issues, please feel free to let me know by creating an issue. I'd love to help.
Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request