Changes I made to the default material theme

Hey there,

I’ve been looking for an easy to use theme for a personal site (which I will most likely not actively use) and I came across a jekyll theme called material. Jekyll is a pretty nice and easy to use static site generator. Another alternative to jekyll is hugo, which is also great. You can’t go wrong with either one.

So, the material theme is made by lukas-h and is hosted on github (https://github.com/lukas-h/material-theme). It is MIT licensed.

I’ve made some changes to it in order to use it as my own personal site. Here’s what I changed:

  1. Disabled google-analytics (I’m pretty averse to tracking and I use browser add-ons in order to safely browse the internet. It would be pretty hypocrite of me to have GA on my own website);
  2. Changed to a dark/night mode (I usually prefer dark background in pretty much everything I do on the computer. Helps with vision and hides the annoying dead pixels);
  3. Increased paragraph’s width (I find the default width to be too narrow);
  4. Added support for mathjax (I come from a background where math is often used. Having support for latex is a must);
  5. Added an about page (The content of this page is, however, directly written in the .html file);
  6. Several changes to the Posts menu;
  7. Changed coloring of the buttons, when active and when inactive;
  8. Hid the bottom bar (I’d rather add those links in the about page);
  9. Added a view posts by “Tags” option;

And that is all I can remember. Please check out the original theme in https://github.com/lukas-h/material-theme. lukas-h did great here and he also has other nice themes. Check him out.

If you want to use a dark version of lukas’ material theme, with a few other changes, you can either edit lukas’ theme, as I did, or you can fork/clone my repo. Be aware, however, that I know nothing of html and css and so the code (my part) is probably a mess.