Remple - A simple jekyll based resume template

My sister is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Ecotoxicology from Universität Koblenz · Landau and was looking for a simple, clean, and elegant site to showcase her curriculum vitae. She asked me to help build one for her.

To provide a general solution to this problem, I created Remple, a very simple resume template built for Jekyll. You can see a demo of Remple here. Anyone with a basic knowledge of GitHub and Markdown syntax can use Remple to build a curriculum vitae without needing to know the intricacies of website creation or running the project locally.

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to set up Remple.

Step 0

• Create an account at GitHub, if you do not have one.
• Sign In to your GitHub account.

Step 1

• Go to the Remple repository.
• Fork the repository.

• Now, you have a copy of the Remple repository in your GitHub account.

Note: All the next steps will be performed on your copy of Remple repository

• You can change the repository name from Settings > Options > Repository name if you want.

Step 2

• Edit the _config.yml file.
• Change the values for title, description, email, linkedin, github, website and medium with your credentials.
• If you have changed your repository name from remple to your preferred name, you need to change the value for baseurl from “/remple/” to ”/[your preferred name]/”.

Step 3

• Edit the index.md file with your credentials. Here is a tutorial to learn Markdown syntax.

Step 4

• Delete the my-photo.jpg file.
• Upload your image file, making sure to name it as my-photo.jpg. If you want to name your image file to your preferred name or the file extension to your image file is different, then you need to change the value for photo_url in the _config.yml file to your preferred name or with the correct file extension as well.

Step 5

• Activate GitHub Pages for this site from Settings > Options > GitHub Pages.
• Choose master as the source branch and / (root) as the folder.
• You can then access your site at [github_user_name].github.io/[repo_name]/

Note: repo_name is remple if you have not changed your repository name otherwise it is your preferred name.