Lanyon for Github Pages

Github Pages provide awesome provision for hosting your blog, personal website, etc. There are many cool themes. I found Lanyon as coolest theme. It proides information/blog first with toggling sidebar.

First part lets install jekyll for you desktop.

I am using Ubuntu 16.04. Update Ruby to 2.4 or later. Ubuntu16.04 has version 2.2 but can be upgraded to suggested upper version 2.4 :

• sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install ruby2.4
• sudo apt-get install ruby`ruby -e 'puts RUBY_VERSION[/\d+\.\d+/]'`-dev
• sudo gem update --system
• echo '# Install Ruby Gems to ~/gems' >> ~/.bashrc
• echo 'export GEM_HOME="$HOME/gems"' >> ~/.bashrc
• echo 'export PATH="$HOME/gems/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
• source ~/.bashrc
• gem install jekyll bundler

Then its time to use theme.

Clone the Lanyon Github repo

• There no default gemfile by default in its Github repo. So, I took one from Poole Github repository and copied it there.
• bundle install
• If there are still error regarding sass-converter gem install jekyll jekyll-gist jekyll-sitemap jekyll-seo-tag jekyll-paginate jekyll-sass-converter
• bundle exec jekyll serve
• Cool! Access you site locally at http://127.0.0.1:4000/
• You need to check _config.yml file, _posts folder for writting your posts :) . For customisation you can check index.html, includes/ , public/csv/ etc. Don’t forget to read README.md.
• Then you can upload all the content to your github repository where you would be publishing your static site. There are plenty of tutorials available on this.

Thanks!