Personal Web Site

This web site is published to huguesvalois.com.

How to Build

Jekyll is used to generate a static web site for GitHub pages.

See Setting up a GitHub Pages site with Jekyll for general information.

The site uses minima as a remote theme (it is pulled from their GitHub repo instead of using a gem) since the latest version of minima has not been published to rubygems.org.

Local setup on Windows

Install Ruby 3.2 or later from rubyinstaller.org.

Local build and run

1. Install dependencies with bundle install.
2. Generate and start the server with bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload.

Adding Content

Adding photo albums

1. Create an album in OneDrive, or some other service. Share the album, protected with a password.

2. Create a 1024 x 576 pixels jpg thumbnail file in the assets/albums/ folder.

3. Add an entry for the album in the _data/albums.yml file. Albums are displayed in the order they appear in the file.

   - isVisible: true
     url: <link to the shared album>
     name: <album name>
     date: <the date appears before the album name>
     file: <thumbnail file name>.jpg

To remove an album, either remove the entry and delete the thumbnail file, or change isVisible: false.

Adding home page header images

The home page shows a random image on every page load.

To add an image:

1. Create a greyscale, 960 x 320 pixels jpg file in the assets/slider/ folder.

2. Add an entry for the image in the _data/sliders.yml file.

   - isVisible: true
     file: <image file name.jpg>

To remove an image, either remove the entry and delete the file, or change isVisible: false.

Adding a blog entry

The home page shows a list of blog entries.

To add a blog entry:

1. Create a .markdown file in the _posts/ folder. Entries are displayed in alphabetical order based on file name.