The Strata Academic Theme

Demo the theme

Try another Jekyll theme: Minimal Light

Features

• Simple and elegant personal homepage theme
• Jekyll theme, deploy automatically by GitHub pages
• Mobile friendly
• Support Markdown

Usage

Using on GitHub

To use this theme, add the following to your site's _config.yml:

remote_theme: yaoyao-liu/strata-academic

Using with Jekyll

You need to install Ruby and Jekyll fisrt.

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/yaoyao-liu/strata-academic.git
cd strata-academic

Install and run:

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll server

View the live page using localhost: http://localhost:4000. You can get the html files in _site folder.

Customizing

Configuration variables

Minimal Academic theme will respect the following variables, if set in your site's _config.yml:

title: Your Name
affiliation: Your Affiliation
email: yourname (at) example.edu
google_scholar: https://scholar.google.com/
github_link: https://github.com/yaoyao-liu/strata-academic
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/
avatar: ./assets/img/avatar.png
google_analytics: UA-111540567-4
favicon: ./assets/img/favicon.png
favicon_dark: ./assets/img/favicon-dark.png
description: The Minimal Light is a simple and elegant jekyll theme for academic personal homepage.
canonical: https://strata-academic.yyliu.net/
remote_theme: yaoyao-liu/strata-academic

Editing index.md

Edit index.md and add your personal information (e.g. publications, research).

Stylesheet

If you'd like to add your own custom styles:

1. Create a file called /assets/css/style.scss in your site

2. Add the following content to the top of the file, exactly as shown:

   ---
   ---
   
   @import "{{ site.theme }}";

3. Add any custom CSS (or Sass, including imports) you'd like immediately after the @import line

Layouts

If you'd like to change the theme's HTML layout:

1. Copy the original template from the theme's repository
   (Pro-tip: click "raw" to make copying easier)
2. Create a file called /_layouts/homepage.html in your site
3. Paste the default layout content copied in the first step
4. Customize the layout as you'd like

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal License.

Acknowledgements

Our project uses the source code from the following projects:

• pages-themes/minimal

• Strata-HTML5