wenshuailu / wenshuailu.github.io

Personal website powered by Hexo, Materialize and Github Pages

Personal Website

Why build this repo

This is a Hexo based personal website (http://wenshuailu.me/) I created for myself.

At the beginning I just wanted to build this as a way to understand the whole process of deploying a website.

Later I might switch to building my website from scratch to host dynamic pages, which I'm very excited about since I'll get to learn more about backend stuff :)

But for now I'll stick with it as a portfolio site and use it to blog about notes/thoughts of coding as well.

The reason why I choose Hexo instead of Jekyll (or others) is that it's based on Node.js, which is something I'm learning right now, so I can easily understand and customize the files, and also save me the trouble of learning new syntax of other languages and frameworks.

Set Up

• Install git and node.js first

• Install hexo

$ npm install -g hexo-cli

• Initialization

$ hexo init <folder>

$ cd <folder>

$ npm install

• Switch Themes

  Hexo has quite a few themes to choose from.

  I use this one as a starting point.

  Installation steps on how to switch themes can be found from above links

• Customization

  • Customized the header and footer a little bit (changed personal info/menus etx.)
  • Created a new home page section as it's not included in the theme
  • Added an new 'about me' page with embed resume.

Acknowledgment

Theme is from hexo-theme-materialize. I made slight modifications but the overall structure is the same. Wouldn't be able to finish it so quickly without this wonderful theme, so I really appreciate it.