Site Credits

Photo by Ian Livesey from StockSnap

The Basics

• Github, Jekyll, Poole

Resources

• Start with the Poole for setting up a basic site. When in doubt, you may refere to the Jekyll and Github Pages documentation:

  • The official Jekyll website.

  • Github Pages documentation with Jekyll.

Todo:

• Fulltext Search on Jekyll site http://dreamand.me/web/fulltext-search-at-jekyll-site/

• Image gallery. Try a without plugin approach of adding an image gallery. While there, try other features.

Inspiration

The inspiration to do a blog on github pages came to me while I was exploring markdown. As of Dec 2015, I get inspired by a very informative blog by Ben Balter that uses Jekyll + Github Pages.

Tips

There are some gotchas that one has to be aware of when setting up the site. I had trouble with baseurl config setting when not using custom domain. Came across a Jekyll issue comment on how to serve on localhost. The following should allow the render on localhost without affecting the relative URLs of the posts:

$ jekyll serve --baseurl ''

If you want to serve ‘drafts’ on localhost, then you may try the following:

$ jekyll serve --watch --drafts --baseurl ''

Resources

Photographs: For royalty free photographs, you may use Pexels, Unsplash, StockSnap and others.

Last update: Aug 2024