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https://github.com/nielsenramon/chalk

Chalk is a high quality, completely customizable, performant and 100% free Jekyll blog theme.
https://github.com/nielsenramon/chalk

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Chalk is a high quality, completely customizable, performant and 100% free Jekyll blog theme.

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Chalk is a high quality, completely customizable, performant and 100% free blog template for Jekyll.

## Overview

Features:
- About page.
- Automatic RSS feed.
- Automatic sitemap.
- Automatic time to read post indicator.
- Cross browser support (supports all modern browsers).
- Custom 404 page.
- Custom code highlighting.
- Customizable pagination.
- Dark and Light theme.
- Easy setup and deploying.
- Enlarge images on click.
- Filter on tags.
- Optional tag navigation.
- Frequently updated with new versions.
- Many social media links supported.
- Media embed for videos.
- PageSpeed optimized.
- Proper sharing links for posts on Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.
- SEO optimized.
- Support for local fonts.
- Support for emoji's.

Integrations
- [Disqus](https://disqus.com/)
- [Google Analytics](https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/)
- [Google Fonts](https://fonts.google.com/)
- [SVG Icons](https://icomoon.io/)

Used tools
- [Autoprefixer](https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer)
- [Circle CI](https://circleci.com/)
- [Html-proofer](https://github.com/gjtorikian/html-proofer)
- [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/)
- [Jekyll Assets](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-assets)
- [Jekyll Sitemap](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-sitemap)
- [HTML5 Boilerplate](https://html5boilerplate.com/) (Influenced by)
- [Kickster](https://kickster.nielsenramon.com/)
- [Retina.js](https://imulus.github.io/retinajs/)
- [STACSS](https://stacss.nielsenramon.com/)
- [Travis](https://travis-ci.org/)
- [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com)
- [Zooming](https://github.com/kingdido999/zooming/)

## Usage

### Installation

If you haven't installed the following tools then go ahead and do so (make sure you have [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) installed):

brew install ruby
brew install npm

On windows, install Ruby and Node with the installers found here:

- [Ruby](https://rubyinstaller.org/)
- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/download/)

Next setup your environment:

npm run setup

### Development

Run Jekyll:

npm run local

## Deploy to GitHub Pages

Before you deploy, commit your changes to any working branch except the `gh-pages` one and run the following command:

npm run publish

**Important note**: Chalk does not support the standard way of Jekyll hosting on GitHub Pages. You need to deploy your working branch (can be any branch, for xxx.github.io users: use another branch than `master`) with the `npm run publish` command. Reason for this is because Chalk uses Jekyll plugins that aren't supported by GitHub pages. The `npm run publish` command will automatically build the entire project, then push it to the `gh-pages` branch of your repo. The script creates that branch for you so no need to create it yourself. Also, if you are developing a **project site**, you must set the `baseurl` in `_config.yml` to the name of your repository.

You can find more info on how to use the `gh-pages` branch and a custom domain [here](https://help.github.com/articles/quick-start-setting-up-a-custom-domain/).

[View this](https://github.com/nielsenramon/kickster#automated-deployment-with-circle-ci) for more info about automated deployment with Circle CI.

## License

MIT License

## Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/[my-github-username]/chalk/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create a new Pull Request