Porfolio

A modern Jekyll website | Clean, responsive, and easy to maintain

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Features

• GitHub-flavored Markdown support
• Automatic syntax highlighting
• Responsive design (mobile-first approach)
• SEO-optimized structure
• Built-in blog functionality
• Customizable through _config.yml
• RSS feed integration
• Social media sharing capabilities

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Ruby ≥ 3.0
• Bundler gem
• Jekyll ≥ 4.3
• Node.js & npm for assets compilation

Installation

git clone https://github.com/your-username/your-repo.git cd your-repo bundle install npm install

Local Development

bundle exec jekyll serve Access at http://localhost:4000

Configuration

Essential _config.yml settings:

title: Your Site Title
description: >-
A brief description of your website
baseurl: ""
url: "https://your-domain.com"

# Optional features
plugins:
    jekyll-feed
    jekyll-seo-tag
social:
    github: your-username
    twitter: your-handle

Content Structure

. ├── _posts/ # Blog posts (YYYY-MM-DD-title.md) ├── _pages/ # Custom pages (about.md, contact.md) ├── _data/ # Structured content ├── _includes/ # Reusable components ├── _layouts/ # Page templates ├── assets/ # CSS/JS/images └── _config.yml # Site configuration

Writing Content

Blog Posts

layout: post title: "My First Post" date: 2025-02-09 categories: [general] tags: [jekyll, webdev] Content in Markdown format...

Custom Pages

layout: page title: About permalink: /about/

Our Story Section content...

Deployment

GitHub Pages

1. Enable GitHub Pages in repository settings
2. Set source branch to gh-pages
3. Add this to _config.yml:

    github:
        repo: https://github.com/garder500/portfolio

Netlify

Customization Tips

1. Themes: Override theme defaults in _sass/
2. Navigation: Edit _data/navigation.yml
3. SEO: Use {% seo %} tag in layouts
4. Analytics: Add tracking IDs to _config.yml

Contributing

Contributing to this project is prohobited as it is a personal project.

License

This project is unliscensed. You are free to use it as you wish.

Acknowled

This project use TailwindCSS v3 for styling and Jekyll for static site generation.

Support

For any inquiries, reach out to me at contact@jeremysoler.com