Kelly Heard — Personal Site

This is the source code for kellyheard.com, a personal website and portfolio for Kelly Heard. The site is built using Jekyll and styled with custom CSS, inspired by MVP.css.

Features

• Static site generated with Jekyll
• Custom responsive design (assets/css/styles.css)
• Project and tools data managed via YAML in _data/
• Contact form powered by Formspree
• Dynamic status updates via JavaScript and Cloudflare Workers

Repository Structure

_config.yml           # Jekyll configuration
Gemfile               # Ruby gems for Jekyll and plugins
assets/
  css/styles.css      # Main site stylesheet
  favicon.png         # Favicon
  profile.jpeg        # Profile image
_data/
  status.yml          # (reserved for status data)
  tools.yml           # List of tools/resources
_includes/
  head.html           # HTML head (meta, styles, fonts)
  scripts.html        # JavaScript includes (status updater)
_layouts/
  default.html        # Base layout
  page.html           # Layout for static pages
  post.html           # Layout for blog posts
404.html              # Custom 404 page
CNAME                 # Domain config for GitHub Pages
contact.html          # Contact form page
index.html            # Homepage
projects.md           # Projects listing page
README.md             # This file

Key Technologies

• Jekyll — Static site generator
• GitHub Pages — Hosting
• Formspree — Contact form backend
• Google Fonts — Typography

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Ruby
• Bundler (gem install bundler)

Install dependencies

bundle install

Serve locally

bundle exec jekyll serve

Visit http://localhost:4000 in your browser.

Build the site

bundle exec jekyll build

The static site will be generated in the _site/ directory.

Deployment

This site is designed to be deployed on GitHub Pages. Push changes to the main branch and GitHub Pages will build and publish the site automatically.

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For more details, see the Jekyll documentation.