At first I wanted to start from scratch and build the entire theme and layouts for this blog by myself. Then I realized that there are much better designers in the world than myself (like pretty much all of them). So I decided to take the easy way out. I am now using the Mediator Theme for Jekyll. I got it off of Jekyll Themes. I decided that having at least the beginning of a theme would help me learn faster.

Modifications

I changed some of the Mediator theme already to get it to work for me. All pretty trivial stuff so far.

• Cover image
• Logo image
• Name of blog
• Footer text
• Social media links
• Remove featured posts (commented in case of future use)

That’s a good start but there is still much more to be done. Right now I have a working list but I’m sure that more will change.

• Minor CSS changes to customize and get familiar with it
• RSS feed integration
• About page
• Photos subsite

But for now I’m excited that the page doesn’t look terrible anymore and that I can be proud to show it off!