Charles Barnes Personal Website

This is my personal website built with Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages.

Features

• Clean, minimalist design
• Responsive layout for mobile and desktop
• Blog section with Markdown support
• Photography gallery
• Portfolio showcase
• Tag-based content organization

Development

Prerequisites

• Ruby (version 2.5.0 or higher)
• RubyGems
• GCC and Make

Setup

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/charlesabarnes/personal-site-sequel.git
   cd personal-site-sequel
   

2. Install dependencies

   bundle install
   

3. Run locally

   bundle exec jekyll serve
   

4. View the site at http://localhost:4000

Content Management

Blog Posts

Add new blog posts as markdown files in the _posts directory using the format:

YYYY-MM-DD-title.md

With front matter:

---
layout: post
title: "Your Post Title"
date: YYYY-MM-DD
tags: [tag1, tag2]
---

Photo Albums

Add new photo albums in the _photography directory as markdown files with front matter:

---
layout: photo_album
title: "Album Title"
thumbnail: "/assets/images/photography/album-name/thumbnail.jpg"
description: "Album description"
---

Place your album images in the corresponding directory: /assets/images/photography/album-name/.

Each album should have a thumbnails subdirectory containing thumbnail versions of all images. You can use the included generate-thumbnails.sh script to create these:

./generate-thumbnails.sh album-name

This will create properly sized thumbnails for all images in the album directory.

Tags

The site uses a tag-based organization system. Create new tag pages in the tag/ directory:

tag/tag-name.md

With front matter:

---
layout: tag
tag: tag-name
permalink: /tag/tag-name/
---

Deployment

The site is automatically deployed to GitHub Pages when changes are pushed to the main branch.

License

All content is copyright Charles Barnes unless otherwise specified.

Contact

For questions or issues, contact me at [email protected]