Project Portfolio

A Zola theme built with Tailwind CSS for presenting the project portfolio of a freelancer, for example. The theme is based on the Blow theme that was created by Thomas Chartron.

Check out the live demo of the example project or a real-world implementation of this template.

Features

• Project types and skills taxonomies
• Dark / light modes (with syntax highlighting depending on selected theme)
• Customizable navbar links
• Search functionality supporting Meta + K shortcut
• Social links (github, gitlab, twitter, linkedin, email)
• Pagination
• Sidemenu menu with sections links
• Table of content (2 levels and currently viewed part highlighted)
• Multilingue
• Error 404 page
• Mobile responsive
• Favicon

Quick Start

For starting to create a new Zola website using this theme, the easiest approach is to just checkout / fork the example repository and adapt it to your needs. That repository already contains a minimal structure and configuration for the Zola-based website and can directly be built and deployed to Github pages.

Details on Using the Theme

The installation of the theme works the same as for other Zola themes. As it is described in the official documentation. Hence, it fist needs to be added as a git submodule:

cd my-zola-website
git submodule add -b main \
    git@github.com:awinterstein/zola-theme-project-portfolio.git \
    themes/project-portfolio

In the config.toml file it needs to be selected then:

theme = "project-portfolio" # The site theme to use.

Create the files projects.md and skills.md in your content directory that are used to show the "Projects" and "Skills" taxonomies. They both need a title and can optionally get a descriptive text that will be shown above the terms of the taxonomy. See the following projects.md file as an example:

+++
title = "Projects"
+++

The title and the text of this page can be adapted by changing the
`projects.md` file in the `content` directory.

Check out the amazing projects, by browsing through the industrial
sectors. The project do not need to be categorized by industries, but
could be distinguished by other topics instead. For example by frontend
and backend projects or by main responsibilities, like developer or
lead. Whatever makes most sense for your project portfolio.

It would be shown with the configured title and content like this above the terms:

The skills.md file can be created the same way. The corresponding page will just show the terms of the skills taxonomy instead of the terms of the projects taxonomy then.

Finally, create the first project page in the content directory:

+++
title = "Project Title"
description = "Here is a short description of the project."
date = 2022-05-31 # The date when the project finished

[extra]
date_start = 2021-01-01 # Optional date when the project was started
image = "water.jpg" # Optional filename to an image in the `static/images` directory

[taxonomies]
projects=["Consumer"] # The category of the project (could be industry, type etc.)
skills=["Thinking", "Hype Technology"] # The skills & technologies used for the project
+++

The content of the project description page follows here.

The generated project site would then look like this:

Configuration

The minimal config.toml file for using the theme looks like this:

base_url = "https://www.example.com"

theme = "project-portfolio"

taxonomies = [
    {name = "projects", paginate_by = 5, feed = true},
    {name = "skills", paginate_by = 5, feed = true},
]

This would, however, lead to an empty index page. The config.toml can be extended by the following configuration parameters for the index page:

[extra.index]
title = "Main Title"
slogan = "Slogan text that is shown under the title"
image = "portrait.png"
image_alt = "Placeholder text describing the index's image."

[extra.social]
codeberg = "https://codeberg.org/johndoe"
github = "https://github.com/johndoe"
gitlab = "https://gitlab.com/johndoe"
twitter = "https://twitter.com/johndoe"
mastodon = "https://social.somewhere.com/users/johndoe"
linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-doe-b1234567/"
stackoverflow = "https://stackoverflow.com/users/01234567/johndoe"
telegram = "https://t.me/johndoe"
email = "john.doe@gmail.com"

Syntax Highlighting

The theme makes use of Zola code highlighting feature. It supports setting a different color scheme depending on the user selected theme (Dark / Light) In order to use it you should select the color scheme you want to use for light and dark themes in the list provided here and edit your config.toml file like this example:

highlight_theme = "css"

highlight_themes_css = [
  { theme = "ayu-dark", filename = "syntax-dark.css" },
  { theme = "ayu-light", filename = "syntax-light.css" },
]

Custom Footer Content

To overwrite the default footer (copyright notice), extend the layout.html template of the theme as described in the Zola documentation by creating a layout.html with the following content in your templates directory:

{% extends "blow/templates/layout.html" %}

{% block content_footer %}
Here is my own footer with a <a href="http://example.com">link</a>.
{% endblock %}