Basically Basic

A new website

Basically Basic is a Jekyll theme meant as a substitute for the default — Minima. Conventions and features found there are fully supported by Basically Basic, with a few enhancements thrown in for good measure:

  • Clean responsive design with six customizable skins
  • Curriculum Vitæ/Resume layout powered by JSON data
  • About page layout
  • Disqus Comments and Google Analytics support
  • SEO best practices via Jekyll SEO Tag

Posts

Post: Future Date

This post lives in the future and is dated Fri Dec 31 00:00:00 9999. It should only appear when Jekyll builds your project with the --future flag.

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Markup: Syntax Highlighting

Post displaying the various ways one can highlight code blocks with Jekyll. Some options include standard Markdown, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and Jekyll’s {% highlight %} tag.

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Markup: Image Alignment

The best way to demonstrate the ebb and flow of the various image positioning options is to nestle them snuggly among an ocean of words. Grab a paddle and let’s get started.

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Layout: Excerpt (Defined)

This is a user-defined post excerpt. It should be displayed in place of the auto-generated excerpt or post content on index pages.

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Post: Standard

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, “Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!” This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children’s minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day.

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Check for long titles and how they might break layouts.

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Edge Case: Nested and Mixed Lists

Nested and mixed lists are an interesting beast. It’s a corner case to make sure that lists within lists do not break the ordered list numbering order and list styles go deep enough.

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