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

[wasd]

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.

[johnotander]

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.

[swanson]

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!).

[johnotander]

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

[3stripe]

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

[johnotander]

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

[Fastidious]

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.

[johnotander]

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!

[ChikkaChiChi]

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.

[johnotander]

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!

[ToastyMallows]

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

[johnotander]

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.

[kidlj]

The theme is beautiful and has a nice name too.

[johnotander]

Thanks for checking it out!

[stijn]

looks beautiful, thanks for sharing!

[johnotander]

I'm glad you liked it!