arco

arco

Arco is a responsive fixed-sidebar layout with a responsive masonry grid which also features a landing page, a 404 page, smooth page transitions and a simple permalink structure.

This theme also utilises jekyll-seo-tag and jekyll-sitemap to ensure your work will be seen.

See this theme in use at meebuhs.github.io and check the source code to get yourself started.

Also check the the usage examples in this post.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "arco"

And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: arco

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install arco

Github Pages

In your _config.yml delete the theme: line and add:

remote_theme: meebuhs/arco

You also need to make the following changes in your Gemfile:

# Comment the jekyll gem
# gem "jekyll", "~> 4.1.0"
# Uncomment github-pages
gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins

Usage

Setup

To get started you need to copy the pages folder from this repository to your site.

By default it features a landing page, if you would like to bypass the landing page, delete index.html and then rename projects.html to index.html.

Site configuration

The following settings can be configured in your site's _config.yml

title: site-title
tagline: site-tagline
description: site-description
image: /assets/images/image.png
url: https://github.com/meebuhs/arco
github_url: https://github.com/meebuhs
resume: true | false
author: Alex Sharpe
lang: en-AU

There are additional parameters which can be set for use with jekyll-seo-tag. See here for a complete list

Expected post frontmatter

---
layout: post
title: Post title
description: Post description
permalink: /projects/post-title
urls:
    source: https://project.source/link/
    download: https://project.download/link/
images: 
    cover: /assets/image-for-front-page.png
    top: /assets/image-for-top-of-post.png 
tags: [tags, which, relate, to, post]
mathjax: true | false
---

Favicon

Simply add your favicon favicon.png to the root of your site.

Lazy loading

In order to enable lazy loading on an image you must add a data-echo attribute like so:

<img src="/assets/placeholder-for-image.png" alt="alt-text" data-echo="/assets/actual-image.png" />

Image lightbox

In order to open an image in a fullscreen lightbox on click, you must wrap the image in a link tag with the class clickable-image like so:

<a class="clickable-image" href="/assets/actual-image.png">
    <img src="/assets/placeholder-for-image.png" alt="alt-text" data-echo="/assets/actual-image.png" />
</a>

Resume support

To add a resume to the site, set resume: true in your _config.yml. Then create a folder called _includes at the root of your site and add your resume.html to it.

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.