{ Personal } is a free responsive Jekyll theme about you. It's your personal blog and your point of reference website. You can watch it in action here.
- Fork of Timeline
- Modern and minimal design
- Responsive templates for home page, blog archive and posts. Looks great on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices
- Sweet animations
- Gracefully degrades in older browsers. Compatible with Internet Explorer 8+ and all modern browsers
- Timeline
- Tell your story so far with a sleek timeline of dates, pictures and descriptions
- White on black text, making the reading experience tireless
- Google analytics
- Modern and minimal design
- Blogging functionality
- Preview of the latest post in the home page
- Archive page
- Pagination
- #tags
- Facebook, Twitter and Reddit share buttons
- Disqus comments
- Control of your website and blog through the site's config file
- Favicon
- Black favicon
- Background Image
- Your picture
- Preview size of the latest post
- Share buttons
- Timeline events
- Disqus comments
- Cool (anti-procrastinating) 404 page
- RSS feed
Even if you have no experience with Jekyll you can personalize your website from the config file (_config.yml). This section describes the available variables and how they change the content of your website.
favicon: "/img/favicon.ico"
Points to the website's favicon.
black-favicon: "/img/black-lab-glass.ico"
Before the title of the website a black and white version of the favicon appears. This value is the path to this icon file.
google-tracking-id: "UA-35880426-3"
Place the id of your tracking code here and the code will be autogenerated and included in every page. If you don't want analytics, just set to False if you are not interested in analytics.
disqus-shortname: "panossakkos"
Add your Disqus username to enable Disqus comments. When this value is set then, every post will get the comments below the post and the comment counters in the post preview of the home page and the Archive. Set to False the value if you don't want the Disqus functionality.
This variable is usefull only if you want to add more pages and not be included in the navigation bar. It contains the pages that you want to include in the navigation bar.
pages_list:
About: 'about'
Blog: 'blog'
Career: 'career'
Contact: 'contact'
background-img: "/img/intro-bg.jpg"
Set the variable to the image that you want to be displayed in the index page.
Set the variable to the desired image of you that you want to be displayed in the index page. This image when clicked, it scrolls down to the About section.
me-img: "/img/me.jpg"
This variable dicates how many words do you want to display as preview in the Blog section of the home page.
post-preview-words: 128
Set to False to remove the respective button
fb-share: True
twitter-share: True
reddit-share: True
The Timeline is displayed in the Career section of the homepage. Each event consists of a date (when did the event started and ended), an image and a description.
events:
- image: "/img/career/microsoft.jpg"
date: "September 2014 - Today"
description: "Software Engineer @ Microsoft Development Center Norway, working @ the <a href=\"http://dev.office.com/officegraph\" target=\"_blank\"> Office Graph</a>"
- image: "/img/career/uoa.jpg"
date: "October 2012 - August 2014"
description: "Master studies @ <a href=\"http://www.di.uoa.gr/eng\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Informatics and Telecommunications</a> on Software Engineering + <a href=\"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UtV6LFYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\">Machine Learning researcher</a> @ <a href=\"http://kddlab.di.uoa.gr\" target=\"_blank\">KDD</a> lab"
- image: "/img/career/cern.jpg"
date: "October 2011 - September 2012"
description: "Security researcher @ <a href=\"http://www.cern.ch\" target=\"_blank\">CERN</a>, developed linux kernel extensions to prevent cyber attacks"
- image: "/img/career/writeright.jpg"
date: "August 2011 - Today"
description: "Released <a href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=panos.sakkos.softkeyboard.writeright\" target=\"_blank\">WriteRight</a>, an adaptive S/W keyboard for Android devices, which shrinks the unlikely keys to tap next. Currently it holds > 9,000 downloads"
- image: "/img/career/pwnmail.jpg"
date: "June 2010 - November 2010"
description: "Released <a href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=pwn+mail\" target=\"_blank\">Pwn Mail</a>, an iPhone app for spoofing emails. It served > 260,000 emails but it was discontinued after a legal threat by <strike>Steve Jobs</strike> a secretary of Steve Jobs"
- image: "/img/career/uoa.jpg"
date: "October 2007 - September 2011"
description: "Bachelor studies @ <a href=\"http://www.di.uoa.gr/eng\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Informatics and Telecommunications</a> on Computer Science and Telecomunications"
After the Timeline you get a picture which you can set it from the career-img variable
career-img: "/img/career/default.jpg"
As a footer you get a list of buttons which are links to various social networks. You can specify the buttons and links form the social variable:
social:
- title: "rss"
url: "/feed.xml"
- title: "github"
url: "https://github.com/PanosSakkos"
- title: "linkedin"
url: "https://no.linkedin.com/in/PanosSakkos"
- title: "youtube"
url: "https://youtube.com/c/PanosSakkos"
- title: "soundcloud"
url: "https://soundcloud.com/psakkos/"
There are many more social networks supported like facebook, flickr, dribbble, pinterest, instagram, tumblr etc.
404-img: "/img/labtocat.png"
Set the value to the image file that you want to display in the 404 page
Jekyll is expecting new posts to show up as a file under _/posts with a file name "YYYY-MM-DD-title.markup". Also your file's content should start like this:
---
layout: post
title: <Post's title>
category: <Post's category>
---
After this header you can start writing your post using Markdown.
Don't forget to list your { Personal } blog in the wiki