Helium is a fast, modern and configurable Jekyll theme with some tricks up it’s sleeve. It has a live theme switcher and it’s main blog layout display prominent hero images for posts with colored overlays and nice animations.

Features

Though minimalistic-looking by nature, dactl is easily configurable and includes quite a lot of niceties:

  • Main features:
  • Jekyll-specific features:
  • Other features:
    • Blog page
    • Landing page samples
    • Tags functionality and tags pages
    • Link posts functionality
    • Mobile slider scrolling
    • Emoji support ⚡️⚡️⚡️ by copy paste from getemoji

Installation

Assuming you’ve got Jekyll installed, clone or download this repo, cd to wherever you’ve put helium folder and run jekyll -s'

Hosting on GitHub

Fork this repo and rename it to yourusername.github.io… and edit the _config.yaml file whit your github address and your links (such as social media username, email, name, ecc.)!
Your new helium-themed Jekyll blog should be up and running at yourusername.github.io.

Additional information about some features

Tags and tag pages are supported by using Jekyll’s native collections functionality.