Extending Hyde, the start of hydeX development
18 Mar 2016
I am looking to migrate my blog from Blogger to Jekyll based GitHub Pages. While researching for a Jekyll theme to use for the blog I discovered Hyde, an excellent theme made by Mark Otto, the creator of Bootstrap.
Hyde is a minimalistic and responsive theme, designed with a mobile first approach. It is close to what I am looking for but somehow it feels lacking a persona I want in my blog template. Not a problem, I thought and decided to try and implement that persona myself. Instantaneously, I forked Hyde to my GitHub repository, and started work on hydeX, the Hyde eXtension.
I do not have a crystal clear idea of the ‘missing persona’ I am looking for in the template. I am starting with the below-mentioned pointers and will iteratively add more features until I am satisfied.
- Change blog’s main page to display the post listing instead of the full post. Experiment with an option to display the post excerpt below the post listing.
- Update Typography to match the blog listing design I envision. Base the Typography on web fonts provided by Google Fonts.
- Make the sidebar more impactful. Replace text links with Font Awesome icons.
- Improve Hyde’s Jekyll configuration file organization. Add additional parameters to control the template experience, which currently requires code changes in the template.
This is just the start, would be interesting to see what the final version turns out to be.
Thanks!
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