Duochrome is a minimal jekyll theme with just a splash of color. (Based on the Monochrome Jekyll theme)
Some websites can be too cluttered with style, ads, and "features" that it can feel annoying to use. Duochrome takes all the beautiful simplcity of Monochrome and adds just a little bit of color and fun, while still keeping things minimal and easy on the eyes.
- Cleaned up code. removed some clunky "if this, else that" portions that werent needed
- Removed custom headers. Monochrome had you set an option and edit a seperate file called "header-custom.html" or "footer-custom.html." It was tedious and bothersome. Now if you need to edit the header, just change "header.html", simple.
- Added several options to color up your posts just a little.
- Completely responsive and mobile first
- Clean SEO friendly URLs, auto-generated from post title (no messy dates in the url)
- SEO title/description integration
- Sitemap ready
- Pagination support
- Mobile friendly navigation menu
- Easy customization for header, footer, navigation links, colors, favicon etc
- Default Monochrome Color Palette - black, white, greys
- About page
- 404 page
- ..and a lot more
(Skip if you already have Jekyll 2.2)
- Make sure Ruby 2.2 is installed
sudo apt-get install ruby2.2
sudo apt-get install ruby2.2-dev
- Install bundle:
sudo gem install bundler - Install jekyll:
sudo gem install jekyll
- We found the jekyll tutorials on youtube very quick and useful to get started
- Jekyll documentation
sudo gem install jekyll-paginate
sudo gem install jekyll-sitemap
- Fork this repository
- (Optional) Change the 'baseurl' value in the 'config.yml' file, from '/blog' to your preferred directory/project name (example '/xyz' or '/' to install in root)
- Clone the forked repository to your local machine to make changes
- Run 'jekyll serve' and open browser to 'localhost:4000/blog/' to see your changes
- (Optional) Host with github pages
- cd into
_posts/ - create new file with format yyyy-mm-dd-title-of-post.md
- (Optional) choose a color (rgb hex value, without the #, eg 2036a4)
- add title/description (refer any of the test posts)
- add markdown and save
You can customize this layout using instructions below.
The basic colors are set into the base.scss file:
- $background-color: used for background and links in the navigation menu
- $text-color: used for text and title in posts and pages
- $text-light-color: used for text lighter than text-color
- $text-dark-color: used for text darker than text-color
To customize the colors, just set the values in HEX, RGB (or RGBa) or any other format accepted by CSS.
The links inside the navigation menu are autogenerated from pages having the layout set to page.
You can set custom links, by putting in the <a> tag into the link.html file.
There are two branches:
master: is for development.gh-pages: is only for demo site.
You can change the 'baseurl' value in the 'config.yml' file, from '/monochrome' to your preferred directory/project name (example '/xyz' or '/' to install in root)
To maintain the vertical rhythm, it has been applied a Typographic scale as a modular scale, with a baseline set to 24px. To maintain this rhythm you need to insert elements like image, video or other contents with a 24px (or multiple) height as refer.
- We found the jekyll tutorials on youtube very quick and useful to get started
- Jekyll documentation
- Google Analytics integration
- Skyler Curtis
- Dyuti Barma
- Web site: Review Aggregation and Summary Site for India - TheReviewIndex.com
Released under MIT License.