Vallender Lab Website

A modern Jekyll theme focused on speed performance & SEO best practices.

Features

• Compatible with Github Pages
• Minimal, responsive and speed performance optimized
• SEO friendly, with help of Jekyll SEO Plugin
• Easy Google Tag Manager Integration
• Support for Disqus comments
• Form submissions with Formspree

Installation

System Requirements

To use this project, you'll need the following things on your local machine:

Jekyll

gem install jekyll

NodeJS

Download and open the NodeJS installer

Gulp.js (optional, but recommended)

sudo npm install -g gulpfile

Up & Running

1. Fork the repo
2. Clone or download the repo into directory of your choice: git clone https://github.com/your-github-username/sleek.git
3. Inside the directory run bundle install and npm install
4. If you want to use gulp.js run gulp or npm start

• if you don't want to use gulp you can simply run bundle exec jekyll serve

Installing to existing jekyll project

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "jekyll-sleek"

And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: jekyll-sleek

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-sleek

Disqus

To enable Disqus comments, add your Disqus shortname to _config.yml:

disqus:
  shortname: my_disqus_shortname

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.