For more about how to use Jekyll, check out this tutorial. Why Jekyll? Read this blog post!
Assuming you have Ruby and Bundler installed on your system (hint: for ease of managing ruby gems, consider using rbenv), first fork the theme from github.com:alshedivat/al-folio to github.com:<your-username>/<your-repo-name> and do the following:
$ git clone git@github.com:<your-username>/<your-repo-name>.git
$ cd <your-repo-name>
$ bundle install
$ bundle exec jekyll serveNow, feel free to customize the theme however you like (don't forget to change the name!). After you are done, commit your final changes. Now, you can deploy your website to GitHub Pages by running the deploy script:
$ ./bin/deploy [--user]By default, the script uses the master branch for the source code and deploys the webpage to gh-pages.
The optional flag --user tells it to deploy to master and use source for the source code instead.
Using master for deployment is a convention for user and organization pages.
Note: when deploying your user or organization page, make sure the _config.yml has url and baseurl fields as follows.
url: # should be empty
baseurl: # should be empty
Your publications page is generated automatically from your BibTex bibliography.
Simply edit _bibliography/papers.bib.
You can also add new *.bib files and customize the look of your publications however you like by editing _pages/publications.md.
Keep meta-information about your co-authors in _data/coauthors.yml and Jekyll will insert links to their webpages automatically.
This Jekyll theme implements collections to let you break up your work into categories.
The theme comes with two default collections: news and projects.
Items from the news collection are automatically displayed on the home page.
Items from the projects collection are displayed on a responsive grid on projects page.
You can easily create your own collections, apps, short stories, courses, or whatever your creative work is.
To do this, edit the collections in the _config.yml file, create a corresponding folder, and create a landing page for your collection, similar to _pages/projects.md.
al-folio comes with stylish layouts for pages and blog posts.
The theme allows you to create blog posts in the distill.pub style:
For more details on how to create distill-styled posts using <d-*> tags, please refer to the example.
al-folio supports fast math typesetting through KaTeX and code syntax highlighting using GitHub style:
Photo formatting is made simple using Bootstrap's grid system. Easily create beautiful grids within your blog posts and project pages:
Six beautiful theme colors have been selected to choose from.
The default is purple, but you can quickly change it by editing $theme-color variable in the _sass/variables.scss file.
Other color variables are listed there as well.
The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Originally, al-folio was based on the *folio theme (published by Lia Bogoev and under the MIT license). Since then, it got a full re-write of the styles and many additional cool features.