Advance Jekyll Theme
A premium multi-purpose Jekyll theme for building advanced marketing and business websites. Includes Services, Projects, and Team content types, a configurable hero section, full blog, dark mode, and Bootstrap 5.2.
About this Theme
Advance is the theme for teams and businesses that have outgrown a simple blog and need a full website — one that can handle services, a project portfolio, staff pages, and a content blog, all from a single Jekyll installation.
More Than a Blog
Most Jekyll themes give you a blog and a few static pages. Advance ships with dedicated content types for Services, Projects, and Team — each with its own listing page and individual detail pages, all driven by markdown files and front-matter. Add a new team member, service offering, or case study the same way you’d add a blog post: create a markdown file and fill in the front-matter.
The Configurable Hero
Every page in Advance can have a unique hero section. Adjust the background image, colour overlay, blend effects, text alignment, and call-to-action — all from front-matter. No CSS editing required. The result is a site that feels custom-designed without custom development.
Performance by Default
Advance uses Bootstrap 5.2 for layout but strips jQuery entirely, keeping JavaScript to a minimum. Combined with automatic SEO meta tags, Open Graph data, and semantic HTML, the theme achieves strong Lighthouse scores out of the box. Dark mode is built in — automatic via system preference or manual toggle — so the design holds up in any context.
Deploy Anywhere
Advance is fully compatible with GitHub Pages (no custom plugins that break Pages builds) and ships with a netlify.toml for one-click Netlify deployment. Formspree and Netlify Forms are supported for contact forms; Disqus handles comments.
Who is it for? Agencies, freelancers, and small businesses that want a professional multi-page Jekyll site — not just a blog — and need the flexibility to grow it over time.
Features
- Jekyll 4.2+ with Bootstrap 5.2 — no jQuery, minimal vanilla JS
- Services content type with individual service pages
- Projects portfolio with filterable project showcase
- Team content type for staff and contributor profiles
- Full blog with pagination, categories, and author support
- Highly configurable hero section — background image, colour overlay, alignment, text, and blend effects
- Dark mode with automatic (system preference) and manual toggle
- Breadcrumbs and sidebars on interior pages
- Animated transparent header on scroll
- All content editable via markdown, front-matter, or YAML — nothing hardcoded
- Configure logo, colours, fonts, menus, and footer in _config.yml
- Auto-generated SEO meta tags, Open Graph, and Twitter card data
- Responsive nested dropdown navigation and mobile hamburger menu
- Contact page with Netlify Forms and Formspree support
- Disqus comments integration
- Google Analytics and social media links
- Google Fonts and Font Awesome 6 icons
- Works with GitHub Pages and Netlify (includes netlify.toml)
- All photos, illustrations, and icons included are royalty free
- Full documentation at zerostatic.io/docs/jekyll-advance/