zjysteven / blog

My blog

Please check out Jingyang's Blog.

This blog is set up with Hexo and is hosted by Github Pages.

The theme

The theme of my blog is NexT v5.1.4. I further customize it by learning from reuixiy(一休儿)'s fantastic blog and his/her tutorial (written in Chinese).

Useful tips

If you are a beginner like me and want to build a blog with Hexo and NexT, here are some "How to start" tips from my end.

1. Check out Hexo's documentation to get familiar it. There are only a few frequently-used commands and should be easy to follow. Then you can start by initializing a blog and deploying it onto Github.
2. Check out NexT's documentation at either here (for latest v7 with more features, written in English) or here (only for v5 or earlier, written in Chinese). Then you can modify the theme configuration file to make your blog more powerful. You can also take a look at detailed tutorials made by Dragonstyle and simon96 (both written in Chinese).
3. Then comes the step of customization. Basically, you need to add codes to your_blog/themes/next/source/css/_custom/custom.styl to customize your theme. It will override the default style set by other .styl files. This is pretty awesome as you can change back to default theme whenever you want by emptying custom.styl. You can check out reuixiy's tutorial and masteranthoneyd's source code for more information. You might also need to make a few modifications to .swig files to change the layout. Prior knowledge of HTML and CSS is very helpful for the whole customization process.