This is my personal website forked from this template.
When installing the theme using RubyGems, demo images, posts, and pages are not included. Follow the instructions below for complete setup.
- (Optional) Create a new Jekyll site:
jekyll new my-site
- Replace the current theme in your
Gemfile
withgem "jekyll-theme-clean-blog"
. - Install the theme:
bundle install
- Replace the current theme in your
_config.yml
file withtheme: jekyll-theme-clean-blog
. - Build your site:
bundle exec jekyll serve
Assuming there are no errors and the site is building properly, follow these steps next:
- Create the following pages if they do not exist already (or change the extension of exisitig markdown files from
.md
to.html
):index.html
- set tolayout: home
about.html
- set tolayout: page
contact.html
- set tolayout: page
posts/index.html
- set tolayout: page
(you will also need to create aposts
directory)
- Configure the
index.html
front matter. Example:
---
layout: home
background: '/PATH_TO_IMAGE'
---
- Configure the
about.html
,contact.html
, andposts/index.html
front matter. Example:
---
layout: page
title: Page Title
description: This is the page description.
background: '/PATH_TO_IMAGE'
---
- For each post in the
_posts
directory, update the front matter. Example:
---
layout: post
title: "Post Title"
subtitle: "This is the post subtitle."
date: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
background: '/PATH_TO_IMAGE'
---
For reference, look at the demo repository to see how the files are set up.
- Add the form to the
contact.html
page. Add the following code to yourcontact.html
page:
<form name="sentMessage" id="contactForm" novalidate>
<div class="control-group">
<div class="form-group floating-label-form-group controls">
<label>Name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Name" id="name" required data-validation-required-message="Please enter your name.">
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<div class="form-group floating-label-form-group controls">
<label>Email Address</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Email Address" id="email" required data-validation-required-message="Please enter your email address.">
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<div class="form-group col-xs-12 floating-label-form-group controls">
<label>Phone Number</label>
<input type="tel" class="form-control" placeholder="Phone Number" id="phone" required data-validation-required-message="Please enter your phone number.">
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<div class="form-group floating-label-form-group controls">
<label>Message</label>
<textarea rows="5" class="form-control" placeholder="Message" id="message" required data-validation-required-message="Please enter a message."></textarea>
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div id="success"></div>
<div class="form-group">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" id="sendMessageButton">Send</button>
</div>
</form>
Make sure you have the email
setting in your _config.yml
file set to a working email address! Once this is set, fill out the form and then check your email, verify the email address using the link sent to you by Formspree, and then the form will be working!
- Build your site:
bundle exec jekyll serve
When using the core files, the demo images, posts, and pages are all included with the download. After following the instructions below, you can then go and change the content of the pages and posts.
- Download or Clone the repository.
- Update the following configuration settings in your
_config.yml
file:baseurl
url
title
email
(after setting this setting to a working email address, fill out the form on the contact page and send it - then check your email and verify the address and the form will send you messages when used)description
author
twitter_username
(Optional)facebook_username
(Optional)github_username
(Optional)linkedin_username
(Optional)
- Build your site:
bundle exec jekyll serve
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