Simply Grey is a nice, easy on the eyes Jekyll theme that makes great use of grey colours.
There are a few requirements to using and installing the Simply Grey theme.
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You must have Jekyll installed. If you have no done this, do it by executing the following code.
gem install jekyll
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You must have git installed. If you do not have this, install it on your system by using your package manager. For example, in Debian, type
sudo apt-get install git
Once you have done this, installation is pretty easy.
Simply clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/exaem/simplygrey-jekyll.git
and serve the blog up so people can see it
cd simplygrey-jekyll; jekyll serve
The SimplyGrey theme is actually very easy to configure.
- Open the _configure.yml file
- Add some more values to the urls hash like the others that already exist there.
- Open the _configure.yml file
- Change the site name
- Drop a 75x75 image into the img directory.