This is an example one-pager site that prospective job-seekers can use to quickly highlight their accomplishments and make an introduction. It can be hosted for free using GitHub Pages (as a Jekyll page), or via Netlify (also free; preferred).
This is based on a heavily pared-down version Jerome Lachaud's Freelancer Jekyll theme. Jerome's original theme is well-suited for designers to easily assemble a portfolio site of their visual work; this is a prose-centric version tailored to software developers. formspree is used for the contact form.
View an example one-pager here
On your command line do:
git clone https://github.com/chuckgroom/onepage-bio.git
cd onepage-bio
# As mentioned in the main page of http://jekyllrb.com/
gem install bundler jekyll
# You may not need the following command
bundle update --bundler
# Following command builds the code and runs the local server
bundle exec jekyll serveAs alternative you can use docker to serve the page. Use the following command to spin up the container using docker-compose. The -d parameter is to run the container in the background.
docker-compose up -d
# To rebuild the page use this command
docker-compose exec web jekyll b- Place your photo in
/img/profile.png - (Optional) Update the favicon
/img/icon.png - Edit
_config.ymlto give your name, email address, social media contacts, etc. You can also update the color scheme. - Edit content in
/_includes/about_me.htmland/_includes/interests.html
For more details on Jekyll, read the documentation.
You can host this page in a variety of ways. In my original blog post, I suggested using Github Pages. However, I've found the Github Pages product hasn't evolved over time, and it was a real pain to support SSL on URLs without www (e.g. www.chuckgroom.com and chuckgroom.com). I'd now recommend using Netlify; just point at the Github repo and it'll set up hosting immediately. I've since moved over the demo link above to point to a Netlify site.