# Junior

Junior is a blog/portfolio theme for Jekyll, the static site generator. It's designed and developed by @jonobelotti_IO.

See Junior in action with the demo site.

Contents

Preview

Landing Page

Dropdown Menu

Example Blog Post

Resumé

Attractive, no-fuss resumé page that includes a PDF-print link (right) with CSS configured to ensure fidelity between screen and paper page.

Open Source Showcase

Connects, using Github's API, with your public profile and pulls your projects (ordered by Stars). Coming soon, you will also be able to showcase significant PRs. Tag colours are also matched to the project's Github language colour-coding.

Project Portfolio Visual Showcase

Project Page

About

Contact

Usage

1. Install dependencies

Poole is built on Jekyll and uses its built-in SCSS compiler to generate our CSS. Before getting started, you'll need to install the Jekyll gem:

$ gem install jekyll

Windows users: Windows users have a bit more work to do, but luckily @juthilo has your back with his Run Jekyll on Windows guide.

Need syntax highlighting? Junior includes support for Pygments or Rouge, so install your gem of choice to make use of the built-in styling. Read more about this in the Jekyll docs.

2a. Quick start

To help anyone with any level of familiarity with Jekyll quickly get started, Junior includes everything you need for a basic Jekyll site. To that end, just download Junior and start up Jekyll.

2b. Roll your own Jekyll site

Folks wishing to use Jekyll's templates and styles can do so with a little bit of manual labor. Download Junior and then copy what you need (likely _layouts/, *.html files, atom.xml for RSS, and public/ for CSS, JS, etc.).

3. Running locally

To see your Jekyll site with Junior applied, start a Jekyll server. In Terminal, from /junior-theme (or whatever your Jekyll site's root directory is named):

> jekyll serve # You might need "bundle exec jekyll serve"

Open localhost:4000 in your browser, and voilà.

4. Serving it up

If you host your code on GitHub, you can use GitHub Pages to host your project.

  1. Fork this repo and switch to the gh-pages branch.

  2. If you're using a custom domain name, modify the CNAME file to point to your new domain.

  3. If you're not using a custom domain name, modify the baseurl in _config.yml to point to your GitHub Pages URL. Example: for a repo at github.com/username/junior, use http://username.github.io/junior/. Be sure to include the trailing slash.

  4. Done! Head to your GitHub Pages URL or custom domain.

No matter your production or hosting setup, be sure to verify the baseurl option file and CNAME settings. Not applying this correctly can mean broken styles on your site.

Options

Junior includes some customizable options, typically applied via classes on the <body> element.

Rems, font-size, and scaling

Junior is built almost entirely with rems (instead of pixels). rems are like ems, but instead of building on the immediate parent's font-size, they build on the root element, <html>.

By default, we use the following:

html {
  font-size: 16px;
  line-height: 1.5;
}
@media (min-width: 38em) {
  html {
    font-size: 20px;
  }
}

To easily scale your site's typography and components, simply customize the base font-sizes here.

Development

Junior has two branches, but only one is used for active development.

CSS is handled via Jeykll's built-in Sass compiler. Source Sass files are located in _sass/, included into styles.scss, and compile to styles.css.

Credit

License

Open sourced under the MIT license.

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