Malt

Event marketing template for Jekyll. Browse through a live demo. Increase the web presence of your event with this configurable theme.

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Features

• Pre-built page
• Pre-styled components
• Optimised for editing in CloudCannon
• SEO tags
• Google Analytics
• EventBrite
• Contact Form
• Featured
• Image Gallery

Setup

1. Add your site details in _config.yml.
2. Add your Google Analytics to _config.yml.
3. Get a workflow going to see your site's output (with CloudCannon or Jekyll locally).

Develop

Malt was built with Jekyll version 3.3.1, but should support newer versions as well.

Install the dependencies with Bundler:

$ bundle install

Run jekyll commands through Bundler to ensure you're using the right versions:

$ bundle exec jekyll serve

Editing

Malt is already optimised for updating pages, company details and footer elements in CloudCannon.

SEO Tag

This site uses the jekyll-seo-tag plugin. You should at least set a title in front matter on each page. Have a look at the project page for more options.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a third party website analytics tool. To install:

1. Add your Google Analytics key to _config.yml.
2. Run your site in production JEKYLL_ENV=production (the default for CloudCannon and GitHub Pages).

EventBrite

EventBrite is a third party embeddable event module for websites. To install:

1. Create an event on EventBrite.
2. Copy the Ticket Form embed code from the Widgets menu item.
3. Paste it into eventbrite_embed in _config.yml.

Image gallery / Featured

The image gallery is populated by a front matter array in index.html. To add items just copy the existing structure.