This site uses jekyll specifically github's flavor of jekyll called pages.
- Great intro atricle to blogging with jekyll
- Github pages dependency versions page
NO setup is required. If you do want to test your changes locally then you need to run Jekyll.
For Linux, Unix or Mac OS X: Installation
For Window: Installation
- Walk through setup
- Up to date guide
- guide with lots of pictures
on the command line in the root of the project (this folder)
jekyll serve -w
Create a folder under 'students/spring2014' perferably following the first letter and last name in all lowercase.
To start blogging create a _posts folder in your newly created user directory.
To write a post just create a file with the following format 'YYYY-MM-DD-Blog-Post-Title.{extension}'
The extension you use will determine how your blog page is parsed. (md, textile or html).
Each post should have meta data associated with it. See the Metadata section.
- layout: defines the template to use. use
postfor default. - title: The title of your blog post
- author: Author name (optional)
- authorLink: can be a url or a relative path ie: /students/spring2014/{folder} (optional)
- tags: space separated tags that describe the content of your post
- published: set to true if you want it visible
- summary: A brief description (optional)
- image: url to an image to show above your content (optional)
- comments: true (optional)
Example:
---
layout: post
title: How-to Write a Post
author: Nathan White
authorLink: /instructors/nw
tags: howto general
published: true
summary: A quick test
image: http://placehold.it/900x300
comments: true
---