Basically Basic

Your new default Jekyll theme

Basically Basic is a Jekyll theme meant as a substitute for the default — Minima. Conventions and features found there are fully supported by Basically Basic, with a few enhancements thrown in for good measure:

  • Clean responsive design with six customizable skins
  • Curriculum Vitæ/Resume layout powered by JSON data
  • About page layout
  • Disqus Comments and Google Analytics support
  • SEO best practices via Jekyll SEO Tag

Posts

Markup: Syntax Highlighting

  • 1 min read

Post displaying the various ways one can highlight code blocks with Jekyll. Some options include standard Markdown, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and Jekyll’s {% highlight %} tag.

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Markup: Image Alignment

  • 3 min read

The best way to demonstrate the ebb and flow of the various image positioning options is to nestle them snuggly among an ocean of words. Grab a paddle and let’s get started.

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Layout: Excerpt (Generated with Separator Tag)

  • ~1 min read

This is the post content. Archive-index pages should display an auto-generated excerpt of all the content preceding the excerpt_separator, as defined in the YAML Front Matter or globally in _config.yml.

Be sure to test the formatting of the auto-generated excerpt, to ensure that it doesn’t create any layout problems.

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