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Long Haul is a minimal jekyll theme built with COMPASS / SASS / SUSY and focuses on long form blog plosts. It is meant to used as a starting point for a jekyll blog/website.

If you really enjoy Long Haul and want to give me credit somewhere on the send or tweet out your experience with Long Haul and tag me @brianmaierjr.

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• Minimal, Type Focused Design
• Built with SASS + COMPASS
• Layout with SUSY Grid
• SVG Social Icons
• Responsive Nav Menu
• XML Feed for RSS Readers
• Contact Form via Formspree
• 5 Post Loop with excerpt on Home Page
• Previous / Next Post Navigation
• Estimated Reading Time for posts
• Stylish Drop Cap on posts
• A Better Type Scale for all devices

1. Install Jekyll
2. Fork the Long Haul repo
3. Clone it
4. Install susy gem install susy
5. Install normalize gem install normalize-scss
6. Run Jekyll jekyll serve -w
7. Run compass watch
8. Customize!

The main settings can be found inside the _config.yml file:

• title: title of your site
• description: description of your site
• url: your url
• paginate: the amount of posts displayed on homepage
• navigation: these are the links in the main site navigation
• social diverse social media usernames (optional)
• google_analytics Google Analytics key (optional)

This is MIT with no added caveats, so feel free to use this Jekyll theme on your site without linking back to me or using a disclaimer.