Simplicity v. 1.1.0

Simplicity is a Jekyll Theme for minimalists focused on essentials avoiding unnecessary clutter. But still giving you all you need to build wonderful pages for your content.

Features

• Simplicity…
• …works with GitHub Pages. Free webspace for you.
• …delivers your site fast. No Javascript/jQuery needed.
• …offers flexible styling of your content.
• …helps you and is well-documented inside.
• …is highly customizable and offers you Tumblr-like postings.
• …is minimalistic and has no clutter.

Installation

1. Download Simplicity
2. Unzip the archive.
3. Open the Simplicity-folder in your Terminal.
4. Type bundle install
5. Type bundle exec jekyll serve --config _config.yml,_config_dev.yml
6. Visit http://localhost:4000/ in your browser.
7. Start customizing Simplicity to your liking :)

What does this do? Bundler is a tool to help you install all the needed Gems (programs, modules) needed to use Simplicity. The second command starts Jekyll with bundler and overwrites with the second configuration file _config_dev.yml some settings in _config.yml like the URL with the development URL http://localhost:4000/.

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