Galaxy Theme — Deep Space Jekyll Theme

📄 License & Pricing

	Free	Paid — $49
Personal / non-commercial site	✅	✅
Footer attribution required	✅ must keep	❌ removed
Commercial / client projects	❌	✅
Future theme updates	❌	✅
Private source repo access	❌	✅

Free to use on personal projects — just keep the small "Theme by csswitch" footer link intact.
Buy the $49 license to remove the attribution, use commercially, and receive future updates.

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See LICENSE for full terms.

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A deep-space Jekyll theme with an animated canvas starfield, CSS nebula clouds, shooting stars, and a comet reading progress bar.

Live Demo →

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✨ Features

• 🌌 Canvas starfield — 320 twinkling stars with parallax scroll depth, rendered in requestAnimationFrame
• 🌠 Shooting stars — CSS-animated across 3 lanes, fully configurable
• 🔮 Nebula CSS clouds — animated radial gradient layers give atmospheric depth
• 🌟 Pulsar featured card — latest post has a pulsing ring animation
• ☄️ Comet progress bar — reading progress shown as a comet trail
• 📱 Fully responsive — constellation grid adapts from 1→3 columns
• ⚡ Zero dependencies — ~5KB vanilla JS
• 🐙 GitHub Pages compatible — no unsupported plugins
• ♿ Accessible — keyboard nav, ARIA labels, prefers-reduced-motion aware
• 🏷️ Tag system + archive — tag cloud, per-tag archives, year-grouped archive
• 🔍 SEO ready — jekyll-seo-tag, sitemap, RSS feed

🚀 Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_BLOG.git
cd YOUR_BLOG
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload
# open http://localhost:4000

⚙️ Configuration

galaxy:
  nebula: "purple"      # purple | blue | gold | red | cyan
  stars: "normal"       # sparse | normal | dense
  shooting_stars: true  # CSS shooting star animations
  comet_progress: true  # reading progress bar on posts

📁 Structure

jekyll-galaxy-theme/
├── _config.yml
├── _layouts/
│   ├── default.html   ← starfield canvas + nav + footer
│   ├── home.html      ← pulsar card + constellation grid
│   ├── post.html      ← post with comet progress + prev/next
│   └── page.html
├── _sass/
│   ├── _variables.scss
│   ├── _base.scss
│   ├── _layout.scss   ← starfield, nebula, nav, footer
│   └── _components.scss
├── assets/
│   ├── css/main.scss
│   └── js/galaxy.js   ← starfield engine + UI
└── _posts/

📄 License

MIT © csswitch

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