The Minimal Light Theme modified by Yueqian Lin

*Feel free to use and share the source code anywhere you like.*
This template is momdified from [Minimal Light](https://github.com/yaoyao-liu/minimal-light/).

Features

Simple and elegant personal homepage theme
Jekyll theme, automatically deployed by GitHub Pages
Basic search engine optimization
Mobile friendly
Supporting Markdown
Supporting dark mode

Project Architecture

.
├── _includes                    # the Markdown files for publications and services  
├── _layouts                  
|   └── homepage.html            #  the html template for the homepage 
├── _sass                     
|   └── minimal-light.scss       #  this file will be compiled into a CSS file to control the style of the page
├── assets                       #  some files
├── .gitignore                   #  this file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git should ignore
├── CNAME                        #  the custom domain, will be used by GitHub page sevice
├── Gemfile                      #  a RubyGems related file
├── LICENSE                      #  the license file
├── README.md                    #  the readme file (English)
├── _config.yml                  #  the Jekyll configuration file, including some options of the page  
└── index.md                     #  the content of the index page, using Markdown

Usage

Using Locally with Jekyll

You need to install Ruby and Jekyll fisrt.

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/linyueqian/personal_page_template.git
cd personal_page_template

Install and run:

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll server

View the live page using localhost: http://localhost:4000. You can get the html files in _site folder.

Customizing

Configuration variables

The Minimal Light theme will respect the following variables, if set in your site's _config.yml:

# Basic Information 
title: Your Name
position: Ph.D. Student
affiliation: Your Affiliation
email: yourname (at) example.edu

# Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
# The following information is used to improve the website traffic from search engines, e.g., Google.
keywords: minimal light
description: The Minimal Light is a simple and elegant jekyll theme for academic personal homepage.
canonical: https://minimal-light-theme.yliu.me/

# Links 
# If you don't need one of them, you may delete the corresponding line.
google_scholar: https://scholar.google.com/
cv_link: files/Curriculum_Vitae.pdf
github_link: https://github.com/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/
twitter: https://twitter.com/

# Images (e.g., your profile picture and your website's favicon) 
# "favicon" and "favicon_dark" are used for the light and dark modes, respectively. 
avatar: ./assets/img/avatar.png
favicon: ./assets/img/favicon.png
favicon_dark: ./assets/img/favicon-dark.png

# Google Analytics ID
# Please remove this if you don't use Google Analytics
google_analytics: UA-111540567-4

Editing `index.md`

Create index.md and add your personal information (e.g., publications, research).

Stylesheet

If you'd like to add your own custom styles:

Create a file called /assets/css/style.scss in your site
Add the following content to the top of the file, exactly as shown:
```
---
---

@import "{{ site.theme }}";
```
Add any custom CSS (or Sass, including imports) you'd like immediately after the @import line

Layouts

If you'd like to change the theme's HTML layout:

Copy the original template from the theme's repository
(Pro-tip: click "raw" to make copying easier)
Create a file called /_layouts/homepage.html in your site
Paste the default layout content copied in the first step
Customize the layout as you'd like

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal License.

Acknowledgements

Our project uses the source code from the following repositories:

linyueqian/personal_page_template