The new website is built with Jekyll using the Minimal Mistakes template. It abandons database-driven site construction and is hosted on Github. The entire site consists of Markdown files for easy management, and it supports core features essential for academic websites, including mathematical formula rendering, syntax highlighting for programming codes, visitor comments, and author management. After migrating to GitHub, the website’s loading speed has slightly decreased, yet its stability has improved significantly.
- Compatible with Jekyll 3.x and GitHub Pages
- Support for Jekyll’s built-in Sass/SCSS preprocessor
- Several responsive layout options (single, archive index, splash, and paginated home page)
- SEO optimized with support for Twitter Cards and Open Graph data
- Optional header images, custom sidebars, table of contents, galleries, related posts, breadcrumb links, navigation lists, and more.
- Commenting support (powered by Disqus, Facebook, Google+, Discourse, static-based via Staticman, and custom).
- Google Analytics support.
- UI localized text in English (default), Brazilian Portguese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish
Minimal Mistakes is a flexible two-column Jekyll theme. Perfect for hosting your personal site, blog, or portfolio on GitHub or self-hosting on your own server. As the name implies — styling is purposely minimalistic to be enhanced and customized by you :smile:.