https://github.com/extratone/jolly-template
A template for Blot, based on The Jolly Teapot template
https://github.com/extratone/jolly-template
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A template for Blot, based on The Jolly Teapot template
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/extratone/jolly-template
- Owner: extratone
- License: mit
- Created: 2022-06-09T12:07:26.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-06-09T10:52:12.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-12T22:37:04.688Z (11 months ago)
- Homepage: https://thejollyteapot.com
- Size: 68.4 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Jolly Template
A template for [Blot](https://blot.im), **minimal**, **light** and **fast**, made to display **easy-to-read** blog posts.
These are the files of the template that I called Jolly, after my own website **[The Jolly Teapot](https://thejollyteapot.com)**, on which this template is based. If you are a Blot user, you can directly access it using [this link](https://blot.im/settings/template/share/2b97e53f-3809-42f2-bd68-28c6d2294c4d).
### Good things about this template:
- **small footprint**: the CSS file is around 600b (uncompressed), and the uncompressed size of the homepage should be less than 5kb. (for 10 entries)
- it uses system fonts, no script, no nonsense.
- it has an **automatic dark mode**
- it should work just fine "out of the box": you should only have to choose your accent colour in the style.css view of the template. If not, dig into the code to customise a few more things.
### Bad things about this template:
- it may not be the easiest to manage, so if you plan to tweak around and customise it a lot, you might discover that some things are not really "best practice."
- you will need to know your way around CSS and HTML if you plan to tweak the design to your likings, or add things like comments, [webmentions](https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/), or analytics.
- it is very minimal, so be warned: maybe try [other feature-rich templates](https://blot.im/templates).
- **Most of Blot optional services will not work with this template**: again, it will require direct HTML/CSS modifications to make some options works: this includes zoom on images, TeX support, etc.
### Notes:
- For the summary on the homepage, you will need to add a _summary_ metadata reference on your Blot entry.
- The mobile view is not set up in the CSS file: I find that it looks good enough as it is, but now you know.
- The _head_ metadata is not complete when it comes to [Open Graph](https://ogp.me), so you may want to check that on your side once it's installed. Same for the favicon parts, it should work, but maybe good to double check on your end.
- On this template, the _search_, _tagged_, and _archive_ pages use the same code: if you want to remove the _tagged_ part, be sure to check the three pages.
Finally, if you see anything wrong with this template or one of its files, well, you know what to do.