Emmy Tsang

Introduction

2020-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tells the story of a lawyer investigating the connection of two persons, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde. Chief among the novel’s supporting cast is a man by the name of Mr. Poole, Dr. Jekyll’s loyal butler.

Poole is the butler for Jekyll, the static site generator. It’s designed and developed by @mdo to provide a clear and concise foundational setup for any Jekyll site. It does so by furnishing a full vanilla Jekyll install with example layouts, pages, posts, and styles.

This demo site was last updated June 06, 2024.

There are currently two themes built on Poole:

Hyde
Lanyon

Learn more and contribute on GitHub.

What’s included

Poole is a streamlined Jekyll site designed and built as a foundation for building more meaningful themes. Poole, and every theme built on it like this one, includes the following:

Complete Jekyll setup included (layouts, config, 404, RSS feed, posts, archive page, and example page)
Mobile friendly design and development
Easily scalable text and component sizing with rem units in the CSS
Support for a wide gamut of HTML elements
Related posts (time-based, because Jekyll) below each post
Syntax highlighting, courtesy Jekyll’s built-in support for Rouge

Additional features are available in individual themes.

Browser support

Poole and its themes are by preference a forward-thinking project. In addition to the latest versions of Chrome, Safari (mobile and desktop), Firefox, and Edge.

Download

These themes are developed on and hosted with GitHub. Head to the GitHub repository for downloads, bug reports, and features requests.

Thanks!

Options

2020-04-03T00:00:00+00:00

With Poole as a baseline theme for Jekyll, there aren’t many options available out of the box. Basic light and dark mode support is included. Colors are also provided for your own customization, while other Poole themes build on this to create more unique looks.

Dark mode
Creating themes
Colors
Gray colors
Google Analytics

Dark mode

Dark mode is enabled automatically via CSS media query—you’ll find the source code for this in the _sass/_variables.scss stylesheet. If you’re familiar with CSS custom properties, you can also use this method to build your own color schemes.

Read more about using CSS dark mode via media queries like this:

// Example media query to detect dark mode
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  // ...
}

Creating themes

If you want to make your own color schemes, modify the CSS variables in the _sass/_variables.scss stylesheet with a scoped data attribute or class name.

For example, below we’ve created the beginnings of a blue theme:

// Example blue theme
[data-theme="blue"] {
  --body-bg: var(--blue);
  --body-color: #fff;
}

Then, apply the theme by adding data-theme="blue" to the <html> element.

Colors

Change your site styles by modifying the source code with these CSS custom properties. Poole’s colors come from the Open Color project.

: var(--red)
#fa5252
: var(--pink)
#e64980
: var(--grape)
#be4bdb
: var(--purple)
#7950f2
: var(--indigo)
#4c6ef5
: var(--blue)
#228be6
: var(--cyan)
#15aabf
: var(--teal)
#12b886
: var(--green)
#40c057
: var(--yellow)
#fab005
: var(--orange)
#fd7e14

Gray colors

There are also ten grayscale colors to choose from.

: var(--gray-000)
#f8f9fa
: var(--gray-100)
#f1f3f5
: var(--gray-200)
#e9ecef
: var(--gray-300)
#dee2e6
: var(--gray-400)
#ced4da
: var(--gray-500)
#adb5bd
: var(--gray-600)
#868e96
: var(--gray-700)
#495057
: var(--gray-800)
#343a40
: var(--gray-900)
#212529

Google Analytics

Specify ga_analytics in your _config.yml and restart the server to add Google Analytics tracking code.

# Google Analytics example
ga_analytics: UA-000000-0

Example content

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Howdy! This is an example blog post that shows several types of HTML content supported in this theme.

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Inline HTML elements

HTML defines a long list of available inline tags, a complete list of which can be found on the Mozilla Developer Network.

To bold text, use .
To italicize text, use .
To highlight, use .
Abbreviations, like HTML should use <abbr>, with an optional title attribute for the full phrase.
Citations, like — Mark Otto, should use <cite>.
~~Deleted~~ text should use <del> and inserted text should use <ins>.
Superscript ^text uses  and subscript _text uses .

Most of these elements are styled by browsers with few modifications on our part.

Footnotes

Footnotes are supported as part of the Markdown syntax. Here’s one in action. Clicking this number¹ will lead you to a footnote. The syntax looks like:

Clicking this number[^fn-sample_footnote]

Each footnote needs the ^fn- prefix and a unique ID to be referenced for the footnoted content. The syntax for that list looks something like this:

[^fn-sample_footnote]: Handy! Now click the return link to go back.

You can place the footnoted content wherever you like. Markdown parsers should properly place it at the bottom of the post.

Heading

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Code

Inline code is available with the <code> element. Snippets of multiple lines of code are supported through Rouge. Longer lines will automatically scroll horizontally when needed. You may also use code fencing (triple backticks) for rendering code.

// Example can be run directly in your JavaScript console

// Create a function that takes two arguments and returns the sum of those arguments
var adder = new Function("a", "b", "return a + b");

// Call the function
adder(2, 6);
// > 8

You may also optionally show code snippets with line numbers. Add linenos to the Rouge tags.

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// Example can be run directly in your JavaScript console

// Create a function that takes two arguments and returns the sum of those arguments
var adder = new Function("a", "b", "return a + b");

// Call the function
adder(2, 6);
// > 8

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Gists via GitHub Pages

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Lists

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Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue.

Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper.
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HyperText Markup Language (HTML): The language used to describe and define the content of a Web page
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Used to describe the appearance of Web content
JavaScript (JS): The programming language used to build advanced Web sites and applications

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Images

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Tables

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Name	Upvotes	Downvotes
Totals	21	23
Alice	10	11
Bob	4	3
Charlie	7	9

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Want to see something else added? Open an issue.

Handy! Now click the return link to go back. ↩

What's Jekyll?

2020-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Jekyll is a static site generator, an open-source tool for creating simple yet powerful websites of all shapes and sizes. From the project’s readme:

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory […] and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub.

It’s an immensely useful tool. Find out more by visiting the project on GitHub.