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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.
Your presence on the web — 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.
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 on this site, in the repository's wiki, or download the PDF.
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.
Version | Free | PRO |
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Blog | ✔ | ✔ |
Features (see below) | ✔ | ✔ |
Portfolio Layout | ✔ | |
Resume Layout | ✔ | |
Welcome Layout | ✔ | |
License | MIT | PRO |
Price | Free | $34 |
Download on GitHub – or – Use the RubyGem |
Buy Now – $34 3 |
Footnotes
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Applies after the initial page load. ↩
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Actual page load speed depends on your hosting provider as well as discipline regarding resolution of images and usage of 3rd party plugins. ↩
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Transactions secured by Stripe. Downloads handled by Simple Goods. ↩