Emerald is a minimal theme created for Jekyll. The main purpose of Emerald is to provide a clear theme for those who want a blog ready to use, focused on the content and mobil-first.

Installation

Emerald may be installed by simply downloading the .zip folder from the repository on Github.

After extracting the content from the folder into the selected directory, you can type jekyll serve from the terminal, than open your browser to 0.0.0.0:4000/emerald/ and you will find there.

Additionally it is possible to fork the repository and using Github Pages as hosting. By following this way it will enough change the baseurl value into the _config.yml file, with the directory name of your project (for example /blog) or with a simply “/” (slash) if you want install Emerald in the root.

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