About
Aug 30, 2013
Balzac is a fluid, responsive theme, designed by Cole Townsend, and ported to Siteleaf by Jonnie Hallman.
Download from Github
Improvements over Jekyll theme
- greatly simplified template system, reducing to one for pages and one for posts (feature/no-feature/light-feature templates can be used through metadata
feature
anddark
) - refactored layout code to wrap content instead of including separate head/footer includes on every template
- removed head-dark include by adding
dark
metadata field - extracted comments and sharing snippets to includes
- replaced complex excerpt template code with Siteleaf’s
excerpt
variable - removed Entypo icons from repo and replaced with links to Symbolset CDN
- removed all images (feature images should be uploaded to Siteleaf site to decouple from codebase)
- added Guardfile to watch SASS files and compile/compress when changed
Original Features
- flexible, uses max-width for responsive goodness
- responsive drop down menu
- retina images using @2x
- post loop in the footer showing 3 latest posts
- custom portfolio page for case studies