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Show HN: Pixyll, a minimal, mobile-first Jekyll theme

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I'm a fan. Reminds me of mdo's http://markdotto.com/ theme (which isn't open source). Slight nitpick, I find the navigation bar to be too small/unreadable.

It definitely drew lots of inspiration from mdo's theme, and basscss.

Yeah, regarding the navigation bar, I was wondering if I should make that font a slightly larger size. I think your nitpick has persuaded me to go ahead and make it a little bigger.

In that case, I'll be using your theme. :)

That is wonderful to hear.

Just a word of advice as someone who also released a Jekyll theme - people will not remember to change the default settings. So I would recommend you put an "example.com" email instead of your personal email in the repo (unless you like getting random emails!).

That's a good point. I will have to change that right now. Thanks!

Beautifully simple. And thanks for the reminder about http://jekyllrb.com/ which seems like a cool blogging system...

Thanks. Jekyll is great, especially when used in tandem with Github pages.

How is it when used with a self-hosted plan? Also, my client machine is Windows - I see a guide to install Jekyll on Windows, but not sure if it will actually work (not officially supported).

On the theme itself, looks good. I like it.

For comments, is disqus the recommended solution? Does it slow down the system again with database calls? Security issues again?

I am also interested in having charts, but I presume integrating those would not be much trouble.

Thanks

discus is a third party SAAS setup. you don't host it yourself it's just some embedded js.

I don't run Windows, so I don't know whether it will work or not. Charts can also be added using a js library. You will have to include the data statically in your Jekyll build, as part of the js, or you can make an API call if available.

Adding to the comment by tacticus about Disqus: It's the preferred solution for Jekyll sites since they are static. Disqus takes care of all the commenting heavy lifting on the client side, while also taking care of the database.

Very nice. My only complain is the huge footer. It really doesn't match the theme. Also, bulleted and numbered lists have smaller fonts, and their line height is odd.

There's definitely something that isn't quite right about the footer. I will have to ponder how to make it fit in more with the rest of the theme. I've just added Github issues for the lists/line height weirdness, I will fix that ASAP.

Thanks for the feedback!

Looks good. I personally feel that the menu options are a bit small for a mobile-first design, but this looks like a great alternative to Poole.

Yeah, you're definitely right on that. I'm going to be increasing the nav font size so that it's easier to read, and easier to tap on mobile devices. I overlooked that aspect a little bit =/.

Thanks for the feedback!

Hmm, would I be able to use Jekyll themes on Octopress?

The Pixyll theme uses a different DOM structure for the templates and includes, so it would require some tweaking to work with Pixyll's stylesheets. Though, it would be feasible.

The theme is beautiful and has a nice name too.

Thanks for checking it out!

looks beautiful, thanks for sharing!

I'm glad you liked it!

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