Here is the description from the original developers:
Long Haul is a minimal jekyll theme built with COMPASS / SASS / SUSY and focuses on long form blog posts. It is meant to be used as a starting point for a jekyll blog/website. THeme Developer: Brian Maier Jr; @brianmaierjr; (https://twitter.com/brianmaierjr).
- Built with SASS + COMPASS
- Layout with SUSY Grid
- SVG Social Icons
- Responsive Nav Menu
- XML Feed for RSS Readers
- Contact Form via Formspree
- 5 Post Loop with excerpt on Home Page
- Previous / Next Post Navigation
- Estimated Reading Time for posts
- Stylish Drop Cap on posts
- A Better Type Scale for all devices
- Install Jekyll
- Fork the Long Haul repo
- Clone it
- Install Bundler
- Run
bundle install
- Run Jekyll
jekyll serve -w
- Run
compass watch
- Customize!
The main settings can be found inside the _config.yml
file:
- title: title of your site
- description: description of your site
- url: your url
- paginate: the amount of posts displayed on homepage
- navigation: these are the links in the main site navigation
- social diverse social media usernames (optional)
- google_analytics Google Analytics key (optional)
This is MIT with no added caveats, so feel free to use this Jekyll theme on your site without linking back to me or using a disclaimer.