Sleek

A modern Jekyll theme focused on speed performance & SEO best practices.

Features

Compatible with Github Pages
Minimal, responsive and speed performance optimized
SEO friendly, with help of Jekyll SEO Plugin
Easy Google Tag Manager Integration
Support for Disqus comments
Form submissions with Formspree

Installation

System Requirements

To use this project, you'll need the following things on your local machine:

Jekyll

gem install jekyll

NodeJS (8 or greater)

Download and open the NodeJS installer

Gulp.js (optional, but recommended)

sudo npm install -g gulpfile

Up & Running

Fork the repo
Clone or download the repo into directory of your choice: git clone https://github.com/your-github-username/sleek.git
Inside the directory run bundle install and npm install
If you want to use gulp.js run gulp or npm start

if you don't want to use gulp you can simply run bundle exec jekyll serve

Installing to existing jekyll project

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "jekyll-sleek"

And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: jekyll-sleek

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-sleek

##File Structure Overview

sleek
├── _includes	               # theme includes
├── _js	                       # javascript files (by default jquery will be included with the scripts inside)
├── _layouts                   # theme layouts (see below for details)
├── _pages                     # pages folder (empty by default)
├── _posts                     # blog posts
├── _sass                      # Sass partials
├── assets
|  ├── css	               # minified css files  
|  ├── img                     # images and icons used for the template
|  └── js		               # bundled and minified files from _js folder
├── _config.yml                # sample configuration
├── gulpfile.js                # gulp tasks (tasks autorunner)
├── index.md                   # sample home page (blog page)
└── package.json               # gulp tasks

Usage

TODO

Site configuration

TODO

###Google Tag Manager

To enable Google Tag Manager, add the following lines to _config.yml:

google_tag_manager: GTM-XXXXXXX

where GTM-XXXXXXX is your Google Tag Manager Container ID. Note by default GTM tracking snippet will be also included in development. Google Tag Manager was chosen for this project as it's more flexible than Google Analytics, and it can be used to add GA to your site.

###Disqus

To enable Disqus comments, add your Disqus shortname to _config.yml:

disqus:
  shortname: my_disqus_shortname

###Formspree

To use Formspree with your email address, you need to change the following:

Change your-email@domain.com email in _config.yml

email: your-email@domain.com

Change your-email@domain.com to your email in _js/scripts (should be at the bottom of the code inside $.ajax( { function).

url: "https://formspree.io/your-email@domain.com"

You can check if it works by simply submitting the form.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/janczizikow/sleek. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Development

To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install and npm install.

Your theme is setup just like a normal Jekyll site! Check out file structure overview for details. To test your theme, run gulp and open your browser at http://localhost:3000. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.

When your theme is released, only the files in _layouts, _includes, _sass and assets tracked with Git will be bundled. To add a custom directory to your theme-gem, please edit the regexp in jekyll-sleek.gemspec accordingly.

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

natemoo-re / sleek