Start with a Jekyll Theme Instead
After creating this blog with the default minima theme, I found an
article about a simpler way to start a Jekyll blog:
Using Jekyll Themes and hosting on Github.io.
Essentially: start with a good theme.
I looked around in jekyllthemes, and found one
that I liked: Not Pure Poole.
Checked the license
on it to verify that I could download and modify the code, and went ahead and did
that. (I could have forked the repo, but I already had a repo created for this site.)
It’s easier to customize with the actual code files themselves, instead of
including it as a theme (with gem) and then adding overrides.
Already did some tweaks. Will be doing some more.