phelanm / jekyll-starter

WIP for a Jekyll base theme

Jekyll Starter

Exercise Snippets Gist

Lean Jekyll starter

1. git clone [repo]
2. bundle install
3. bundle exec jekyll serve -w

Install Bundler

$ gem install bundler
http://bundler.io/

Get the Repo

Fork the repo on github.com (can set up gh-pages here) and copy URL to clone
$ cd Documents/github/projects (this can be wherever you want to store files, not on dropbox)
$ git clone https://github.com/budparr/jekyll-starter-your-fork.git
$ cd jekyll-starter
Open in your text editor

Initialize Jekyll

$ bundler install
$ bundle exec jekyll serve -w
Go to http://localhost:4000/ in your browser

Helpful Links

Official

Jekyll Documentation
Jekyll Repo, for bug reports
Jekyll Twitter account
Liquid Documentation
Liquid for Designers

Resources

the New Dynamic Jekyll page with links to 220+ articles, tutorials, tools and resources
Ben Balter, Jekyll Style Guide
Jekyll Cheat Sheet and Tutorials
Github Pages
Github Pages dependency versions (to see what version of Jekyll, etc it's running)

Community

Jekyll Forums (core team monitor this) Jekyll Questions on Stack Overflow

Other Resources

The A11Y Project: A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier.
Tachyons CSS Github Pages hosting help page