Personal site with Pixyll

A minimal Jekyll site using the Pixyll theme via remote_theme.

Local preview

You can rely on GitHub Pages to build this without a local Ruby setup. If you want to preview locally:

Using GitHub Actions (recommended)

1. Create a new repo on GitHub and push this folder as main.
2. In Settings → Pages, set Source: GitHub Actions.
3. The included workflow .github/workflows/pages.yml will build with Jekyll and deploy.
4. Your site URL appears in the Pages environment after the first run.

Custom domain

• Add a CNAME file with your domain, commit, then set the same domain in Settings → Pages.

# Requires Ruby + Bundler
bundle add jekyll jekyll-paginate jekyll-remote-theme --group "jekyll"
bundle exec jekyll serve

GitHub Pages

Using GitHub Actions (recommended)

1. Create a new repo on GitHub and push this folder as main.
2. In Settings → Pages, set Source: GitHub Actions.
3. The included workflow .github/workflows/pages.yml will build with Jekyll and deploy.
4. Your site URL appears in the Pages environment after the first run.

Custom domain

• Add a CNAME file with your domain, commit, then set the same domain in Settings → Pages.

• Push this repo to GitHub.

• In the repository settings, enable GitHub Pages for the main branch (root).

Using GitHub Actions (recommended)

1. Create a new repo on GitHub and push this folder as main.
2. In Settings → Pages, set Source: GitHub Actions.
3. The included workflow .github/workflows/pages.yml will build with Jekyll and deploy.
4. Your site URL appears in the Pages environment after the first run.

Custom domain

• Add a CNAME file with your domain, commit, then set the same domain in Settings → Pages.

• Your site will be available at https://<username>.github.io/<repo>/.

To use a user site (https://<username>.github.io), rename the repo to <username>.github.io.

Customize

• Edit _config.yml for your name, socials, and description.
• Update _data/navigation.yml to add/remove top nav items.
• Put publications in _data/publications.yml and they will render automatically.
• Replace assets/images/headshot.jpg with your photo.
• Drop assets/Fiona_Xie_CV.pdf to enable the CV link.