Themes

[rahulsh1]

Could you give some pointers on how one goes about to apply one of the themes given here to simple_site?
Thanks for your work and your tutorial on how to use simple_site.

[kbroman]

I've not looked into themes; sorry.

[iurisegtovich]

@rahulsh1 I spent some time trying to mimic locally the build that github automatically makes with my README.md files and a given theme. here is what i was able to achieve:

obs: for the theme leap-day

• download as zip the content of
  https://github.com/pages-themes/leap-day**
  this is the good to go theme for github pages

• AND NOT THE CONTENT OF
  https://github.com/mattgraham/leapday
• this is like some sample page of the template developer and my limited knowledge was not able to make build with my content

• replace the content of index.md below the three dahses

---
layout: default
---

with your content

• run the comments described in the previewing section of the repo:

• cd into the theme's directory
• Run script/bootstrap to install the necessary dependencies
• Run bundle exec jekyll serve to start the preview server
• Visit localhost:4000 in your browser to preview the theme

now i see my page locally build as i see in the github built and deployed version

Note: I haven't completely figured out how to work with github pages, local jekyll builds and themes, but I Got That Goin For Me Which Is Nice, and i hope it helps you somehow