General Features · Free Bootstrap V5 theme for Jekyll

Current software counts. Excellent tools in their latest versions make the rocket engine for each and every website. Jekyll One is using current software in their latest versions. All of them are OpenSource and free to use. No license issues for private or professional use.

Platforms

J1 Template is based on these popular software platforms:

Ruby >= 2.7
Jekyll 4.3
NodeJS 14.x

All software-platforms are OpenSource, free to use and available on all common operating systems like Windows, Linux, and OSX.

Ruby

For the latest versions of J1 Template (>= 2022.5.0), Ruby V3 is recommended. The latest Ruby versions offer much better run-time performance. Ruby 3 will be up to three times faster compared to Ruby 2.0. This will definively speed-up the development processes for your new website.

Jekyll

The latest version of Jekyll v4.3.0 (October 2022) including all fixes for version V4. The upcoming version v4.3.0 will offer some new features and modernized functionality. If this version is released, all new features will be implemented in J1 as well.

NodeJS

Websites created by Jekyll One are projects managed by NodeJS. The built-in script engine provided by the package manager npm of NodeJS simplifies the management of J1 projects a lot. Well-known commands typically used to manage software projects are at your fingertips. Easy to learn, easy to remember. Simple commands support creators to concentrate on the content.

Frameworks

To no reinvent wheels, J1 Template is based on ready-to-use frameworks, extensions, and modules. All build-in frameworks are industry standard, well known, and accepted worldwide.

Bootstrap V5
Internet Standards Supported (HTML5, CSS and Javascript)
Icon Fonts
Fully Configurable

Bootstrap V5

For current webs, a must: responsiveness and modern design. Jekyll One is based on Bootstrap V5, the leading platform to create today’s responsive webs.

Internet Standards Supported

Professional websites on the internet define standards. All current sites support dynamic, fast loading, and some more features. For fastest loading, all HTML, CSS, and Javascript have been compressed automatically for production. Going further for dynamic, AJAX loading for J1 webs is supported as well.

Icon Fonts

No question, icons and icon fonts are essentially required to make a site better understandable. Icons are used for navigation, extensions, modules, and last but not least for the content.

J1 Template supports popular icons font sets out-of-the-box:

All the icon sets are excellent in design and have a rich set of icons in various categories typically used for the Web.

Fully Configurable

Software products of today are not easy to manage. To get the complexity out of your way, J1 is fully configurable. No need to dive in the deep.

Example of a Text Slider configuration (carousel.yml)

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# text--template-features (features page)
#
- show:
    enabled:          true
    id:               text--template-features
    lightbox:         false
    type:             text
    text:             [
                        "<big>Jekyll One Theme</big>         </br> <i>Clean, ..</i>",
                        "<big>Jekyll meets Bootstrap</big>      </br> <i>Best of ..</i>",
                        "<big>J1 is Open Source</big>           </br> <i>No pain ..</i>",
                        "<big>Explore this site</big>           </br> <i>Learn what's ..</i>",
                        "<big>Create modern static sites</big>  </br> <i>Secure, ..<i>"
                      ]
    options:
      autoPlay:       5000
      singleItem:     true
      pagination:     false

Configure what is to be done.

Devices

The Web is everywhere. J1 Template supports modern web browsers on all devices for best results on PCs, Tablets, and SmartPhones.

Desktop and Mobile support
Desktop Web Navigation
Mobile Web Navigation
Best Google Lighthouse Scores

Desktop and Mobile support

The internet has shifted from almost exclusively desktop-driven to mostly mobile-driven nowadays. Just a decade ago, in 2010, over 90 percent of all global web traffic came from desktop computers. The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of July 2021, more than 50 percent of all web traffic came through mobile devices.

Source: broadbandsearch.net

As of 2021, more than 50 percent of the total web visits are currently mobile. For this reason, it is very important to provide good useability of your website for mobile devices.

Then Naviagtion Modules of J1 Template provides multiple sub-modules. An very important one: the menu system. Based on a quite simple configuration, give your vistors easy access to all of your content pages on a mouse-click.

Example of a Menu Configuration (navigator_menu.yml)

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Menu LEARN
#
- item:                                 Learn
  sublevel:
    - title:                            Where to go
      href:                             /pages/public/learn/where_to_go/
      icon:                             paw

Mobile devices are great for Apps designed for these platforms. Using a web browser to surf websites is often frustrating on mobiles. Jekyll One provides navigation systems that cover both worlds: desktops and mobiles.

Desktop and Mobile Navigation is using the same configuration data (navigator_menu.yml). The automatically generated menus for Desktop and Mobile Devices are displayed based on the size of the viewport.

Best Google Lighthouse Scores

Performance is a key factor for all users. To not get visitors lost, J1 webs are highly optimized. All Websites will achieve the best Google Lighthouse scores for performance, accessibility, best practices, and SEO at the green level.