{ Personal } Jekyll Theme

{ 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.

What value does { Personal } add

• 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
• Blogging functionality
  • Preview of the latest post in the home page
  • Archive page
  • 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
  • Timeline events
  • Disqus comments
• Cool (anti-procrastinating) 404 page

Screenshots

Index page

Latest post preview

Timeline

Blog Archive

Post page

404

Customizing your website from the config

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

favicon: "/img/favicon.ico"

Points to the website's favicon.

Black 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 Analytics

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 remove the string value and the code will not be generated.

Disqus

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. Remove the value if you don't want the Disqus functionality.

Navigation Bar links

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 image

background-img: "/img/intro-bg.jpg"

Set the variable to the image that you want to be displayed in the index page.

Me image

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"

Post preview size

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

Timeline Events

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&amp;hl=en&amp;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 &gt; 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 &gt; 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"

Social Networks buttons

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 Image

404-img: "/img/labtocat.png" Set the value to the image file that you want to display in the 404 page

Posting a new post

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.

Steps forward

• Support discovery with support of tags