Al Folio

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Al Folio

A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics

Overview

The al-folio theme is a simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme specifically designed for academics. It is popular among academics worldwide for creating their homepages, blogs, lab pages, and webpages for courses, workshops, conferences, and meetups.

Features

  • Publications feature for showcasing academic publications.
  • Collections feature for organizing content.
  • Distill layout style.
  • Full support for math and code.
  • Photos feature for adding images.
  • GitHub repositories and user stats integration.
  • Theming options.
  • Social media previews.
  • Atom feed.

Local setup using Docker (Recommended on Windows)

  1. Install Docker and Docker Compose.
  2. Clone the al-folio repository to your machine.
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