Hydejack is a cutting-edge Jekyll theme that combines the best of static sites and modern web apps. It features a suite of JavaScript that makes the page feel like an app, without sacrificing backwards-compatibility, page-load speed or SEO.
The complete package for professionals: A blog, a portfolio and a resume.
It aims to be the complete package for professionals on the web. It features a blog suitable for both prose and technical documentation, a showcase for projects and a resume that fits with the rest of the design.
It's best to just see it in action.
There are two versions of Hydejack: The Free Version includes basic blogging functionality, as did previous versions of the theme. The new PRO Version includes additional features for professionals: A portfolio, a resume layout and a welcome page to feature your favorite projects and posts.
This table details what is and isn't included in each respective version.
Free Version | PRO Version | |
---|---|---|
Blog | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Features (see below) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Portfolio | ✔️ | |
Resume | ✔️ | |
Welcome | ✔️ | |
Briefcase full of $100 bills | ||
License | MIT | PRO |
Price | Free | $21 |
Download on GitHub – or – Use the RubyGem |
Buy on Simple Goods |
Both the PRO and free version includes all of the features listed below:
- Full in-app page loading — no Flash of White, no Flash of Unstyled Content1
- Advanced animations, inspired by Material Design
- A customizable sidebar that turns into a touch-enabled app drawer on mobile
- Near-perfect Google PageSpeed Score2
- Even higher perceived speed thanks to pre-fetching and latency-hiding
- Support for categories and tags — even when hosting on GitHub Pages
- Built-in collection of social media icons
- Author section below each article and multiple authors
- Simple and semantic HTML — can be viewed even with text-based browsers
- Progressive enhancement — sacrifice features, not content
- Google Analytics and Google Fonts support
- Blog layout with pagination
- Syntax highlighting
- Math formulas via LaTeX
- Disqus comments
- RSS feed
- Print layout
Hydejack is documented extensively. You can read it here or in the repository's wiki, or download the PDF.