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title: About Simpol - An open source, free Jekyll theme
description: More information about Simpol Theme, a content writer's best friend. Setup a Jekyll blog and start writing, fast!
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		<h3>Minimal Jekyll theme that's all about the content.</h3>

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		<h2>Current Features in v{{site.current-version}}</h2>

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			<li>Minimal design and feel.</li>
			<li>Optimized for speed - light-weight and static.</li>
			<li>Simple and customizable Navigation, Index, and Footer</li>
			<li>Site greeting, sub-greetings, links, logo, and more</li>
			<li class="margin-left-4">All easily setup and managed in the config file</li>
			<li>Clean, light-weight, default layouts for pages and posts</li>
			<li class="margin-left-4">Search engine friendly! Optimized metadata for SEO.</li>
			<li class="margin-left-4">Easy, site-wide Google Analytics setup/integration</li>
			<li>Post categories and archive page</li>
			<li>Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, and email on posts.</li>
			<li>Sitemap, XML Feed, and 404 Page</li>
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		<h3>Clean and simple, like your website should be.</h3>

		<p>Simpol Theme is designed, developed, and maintained by Scott Mathson, Mathson Design Co. Please send feature requests to simpol@scottmathson.com or <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=856908965778604032">tweet in-reply-to this status</a>.
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		<p>The clean design and feel is inspired by other minimal themes and blogs out there.
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		<p><a href="https://github.com/scottmathson" target="_blank">Scott Mathson, GitHub</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/scottmathson" target="_blank">Scott Mathson, Twitter</a>
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		<h3>Resources</h3>

		<p>Check out these blog posts for help in getting started blogging with Simpol Theme. Within the posts are even more resources to help you.</p>

		<p><a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/tips/tricks/2017/04/16/writing-new-post/">Adding New Posts, Simpol Blogging</a></p>
		<p><a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/tips/tricks/2017/04/15/blogging-in-markdown-overview/">Markdown Overview, Simpol Blogging</a>
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		<p>See the gem details and learn more at <a href="https://rubygems.org/gems/simpol-jekyll-theme">rubygems.org</a>
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		<p>See the <a href="https://github.com/scottmathson/simpol-theme">theme's source code on github</a>
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		<p>Changelog and version <a href="https://github.com/scottmathson/simpol-theme/releases">releases on github</a>
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