The engineering blog was created using Jekyll Now.
Jekyll is a static site generator that's perfect for GitHub hosted blogs (Jekyll Repository)
Jekyll Now makes it easier to create your Jekyll blog, by eliminating a lot of the up front setup.
Create a new file in the _drafts folder and open a PR for review of your content.
Once the post is approved you can move it to the _posts directory and merge your PR to master.
This Markdown Cheatsheet might come in handy.
- Clone down your fork
git clone https://github.com/himaxwell/himaxwell.github.io.git bundle installbundle exec jekyll serve --watch --drafts- View your website at http://127.0.0.1:4000/
I've created a more detailed walkthrough, Build A Blog With Jekyll And GitHub Pages over at the Smashing Magazine website. Check it out if you'd like a more detailed walkthrough and some background on Jekyll. 🤘
It covers:
- A more detailed walkthrough of setting up your Jekyll blog
- Common issues that you might encounter while using Jekyll
- Importing from Wordpress, using your own domain name, and blogging in your favorite editor
- Theming in Jekyll, with Liquid templating examples
- A quick look at Jekyll 2.0’s new features, including Sass/Coffeescript support and Collections
- Jekyll - Thanks to its creators, contributors and maintainers.
- SVG icons - Thanks, Neil Orange Peel. They're beautiful.
- Solarized Light Pygments - Thanks, Edward.
- Joel Glovier - Great Jekyll articles. I used Joel's feed.xml in this repository.
- David Furnes, Jon Uy, Luke Patton - Thanks for the design/code reviews.
- Bart Kiers, Florian Simon, Henry Stanley, Hun Jae Lee, Javier Cejudo, Peter Etelej, Ben Abbott, Ray Nicholus, Erin Grand, Léo Colombaro, Dean Attali, Clayton Errington, Colton Fitzgerald, Trace Mayer - Thanks for your fantastic contributions to the project!