Overview:

DEMOA is a Jekyll theme that utilizes Google's Polymer library and follows the material design specifications. The theme includes custom web components that are designed to match Material design. The purpose of creating this theme was to provide a Jekyll blog theme that uses Polymer and follows Google's material design specifications.

Features:

Full-text search with simple-jekyll-search
Paginated home page
Support for featured post images
Threaded comments with Disqus
Google Analytics integration
One-command deployment to Github Pages
Tagged posts with archive by tag
Authorship with Gravatar icons

Structure:

app/: All Jekyll content is here. (This is where all the editing happens)
bower_components: Content installed via bower ends up here
elements/: Custom web components using Polymer
images/: User images
media/: Other user content (PDFs, videos, etc.) for final product
scripts/: Javascript files
styles/: Custom CSS
_data/authors.yml: List of authors for posts and pages
dist/: Built output from Gulp. (Use to publish static content)
node_modules: Content installed via npm goes here

Deployment:

gulp serve: Starts a jekyll serve process on the default port (4000 or whatever is specified in _config.yml).
gulp serve --port 6666: Start serving on port 6666
gulp serve:dist: Build as below, and serve the result from the dist/ directory. (Useful for testing changes to the gulpfile. Currently does not work with a Jekyll baseurl configured.)
gulp: Builds the files with jekyll, vulcanizes, minimizes, and puts the result in the dist/ directory. (This can be slow.)
gulp deploy-gh-pages: Deploy the current build to the gh-pages branch of your repository.
gulp build-deploy-gh-pages: Rebuild and then deploy. (Equivalent to gulp && gulp deploy-gh-pages)

Summary:

DEMOA is a Jekyll theme built with Google's Polymer library and follows the material design specifications. It includes features such as full-text search, paginated home page, support for featured post images, threaded comments, Google Analytics integration, and one-command deployment to Github Pages. The theme also provides installation instructions and a structure guide for easy customization.

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