3 *The Strange Case of Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde* tells the story of a lawyer investigating the connection of two persons, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde. Chief among the novel's supporting cast is a man by the name of Mr. Poole, Dr. Jekyll's loyal butler.
7 Poole is the butler for [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com), the static site generator. It's designed and developed by [@mdo](https://twitter.com/mdo) to provide a clear and concise foundational setup for any Jekyll site. It does so by furnishing a full vanilla Jekyll install with example templates, pages, posts, and styles.
9 ![Poole](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/98681/1834359/71ae4048-73db-11e3-9a3c-df38eb170537.png)
11 See Poole in action with [the demo site](http://demo.getpoole.com).
13 There are currently two official themes built on Poole:
15 * [Hyde](http://hyde.getpoole.com)
16 * [Lanyon](http://lanyon.getpoole.com)
18 Individual theme feedback and bug reports should be submitted to the theme's individual repository.
25 - [Rems, `font-size`, and scaling](#rems-font-size-and-scaling)
26 - [Development](#development)
35 Poole is built for use with Jekyll, so naturally you'll need to install that. On Macs, it's rather straightforward:
41 **Windows users:** Windows users have a bit more work to do, but luckily [@juthilo](https://github.com/juthilo) has your back with his [Run Jekyll on Windows](https://github.com/juthilo/run-jekyll-on-windows) guide.
43 You may also need to install Pygments, the Python syntax highlighter for code snippets that plays nicely with Jekyll. Read more about this [in the Jekyll docs](http://jekyllrb.com/docs/templates/#code_snippet_highlighting).
47 To help anyone with any level of familiarity with Jekyll quickly get started, Poole includes everything you need for a basic Jekyll site. To that end, just download Poole and start up Jekyll.
49 ### 2b. Roll your own Jekyll site
51 Folks wishing to use Jekyll's templates and styles can do so with a little bit of manual labor. Download Poole and then copy what you need (likely `_layouts/`, `*.html` files, `atom.xml` for RSS, and `public/` for CSS, JS, etc.).
53 ### 3. Running locally
55 To see your Jekyll site with Poole applied, start a Jekyll server. In Terminal, from `/Poole` (or whatever your Jekyll site's root directory is named):
61 Open <http://localhost:4000> in your browser, and voilĂ . You're done.
66 Poole includes some customizable options, typically applied via classes on the `<body>` element.
69 ### Rems, `font-size`, and scaling
71 Poole is built almost entirely with `rem`s (instead of pixels). `rem`s are like `em`s, but instead of building on the immediate parent's `font-size`, they build on the root element, `<html>`.
73 By default, we use the following:
80 @media (min-width: 38rem) {
88 To easily scale your site's typography and components, simply customize the base `font-size`s here.
93 Poole has two branches, but only one is used for active development.
95 - `master` for development. **All pull requests should be to submitted against `master`.**
96 - `gh-pages` for our hosted site, which includes our analytics tracking code. **Please avoid using this branch.**
102 - <https://github.com/mdo>
103 - <https://twitter.com/mdo>
108 Open sourced under the [MIT license](LICENSE.md).