The Jekyll Themes site is a good place to start looking for free themes, and most of the themes have a demo website set up so you can navigate around a site using the theme and really get a feel for how it would look on your website. “Styling” is often used to mean changing a site’s appearance through CSS (the language that tells a browser how to display things, much like HTML tells a browser how to structure content on a page) “theming” more often means that you’re achieving styling through not just changes to existing CSS, but by reusing, customizing, or creating a set of multiple files that change the site’s visual appearance.īefore you dive into learning CSS, you can simply reuse (and then tweak or more heavily customize) any of the many existing themes for Jekyll-generated sites. If you enjoy the lesson and want to further customize the look of your website, this blog post will help you do that! ( This post assumes you’ve read my lesson already.) Thanks to Daniel Akacki for motivation to write this post! ThemingĪs I mentioned in my lesson, “theming” means changing the visual appearance (and sometimes behavior, like adding a comment section or a new menu) of your website. That lesson takes you through publishing a basic website that will look much like this demo website. My lesson, like many of the lessons at The Programming Historian, assumes no technical knowledge and is specifically aimed at people who haven’t coded or created a website before. I wrote a peer-reviewed lesson that will get you started over at The Programming Historian (which is a really cool site full of peer-reviewed lessons for lots of digital humanities skills and methods). If you’d like an entirely free, easy-to-maintain, preservation-friendly, secure website over which you have full control-such as a scholarly blog, project website, or online portfolio-using Jekyll and GitHub Pages is a good option.
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