So, you’re tired of the basic GitHub Pages theme and you want something more exciting. Using a third party Jekyll theme from websites like

• jekyllthemes.io/
• jekyll-themes.com
• or others from a full list

requires something a bit more complicated than GitHub, but in essence it just involves adding a couple of lines of code.

1. Open
   • _config.yml
   • Gemfile
2. In _config.yml

remote-theme: [github-organization]/[theme-name]

1. In Gemfile replace everything with

source 'https://rubygems.org'

# gem 'jekyll', '3.8.5'
gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins

group :jekyll_plugins do
 gem 'jekyll-remote-theme'

end

Themes that are well documented often have detailed instructions and samples to help you get started. The theme I’m using is Basically Basic.