Creating blogs with Jekyll [electronic resource] / Vikram Dhillon.
Dhillon, Vikram, author.
2016
TK5105.8884
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Title Creating blogs with Jekyll [electronic resource] / Vikram Dhillon.
Author Dhillon, Vikram, author.
ISBN 9781484214640 (electronic book)
1484214641 (electronic book)
9781484214657
Published [Berkeley, CA] : Apress, 2016.
New york, NY : Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer,
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 345 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number TK5105.8884
Dewey Decimal Classification 006.7/52
Summary Learn to create your own blog using the Jekyll static site generator. You'll start with a simple template, add new features to it, automate any maintenance, attach social sharing, and begin writing. By the end of Creating Blogs with Jekyll, you will be able to create custom blogs with Jekyll, update the content with ease, and reach out to your readers with minimal effort. Because you've built your blog yourself, you'll know exactly how each component works, and you won't be dependent on an admin panel to maintain it. Creating Blogs with Jekyll equips you with the knowledge to create an elegantly designed blog and scale it to capture more readers. Recapture the magic of writing by creating great content and use an easy workflow in Jekyll to maintain it for blogging. Do new things and write about them in style with Jekyll. Takes you through building a fully functional blog from scratch using Jekyll Provides a fun way to work on a side-project and integrate cutting edge web technologies Teaches you how to update and maintain your awesome blog Jekyll is a simple, secure and very low maintenance blog engine that converts naturally written content in markdown into a beautiful and minimal blog. It allows you to focus on content creation and expressing yourself instead of spending all your time updating the plugins and maintaining the database. Jekyll does not rely on a database as a backend so your blog will be far more secure and reliable than any traditional blogging engines such as WordPress.
Note Includes index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 21, 2016).
Series Expert's voice in Web development.
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At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: History and Development; Chapter 1: Static Web; Here Be Dragons; Commercial Internet: CERN; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Web 2.0; Early Web Browsers; Defining Web 2.0; Boom and Bust; Connecting the Dots; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Static Site Generators; The Maturing Web; Blogging in Web 2.0; Looking Back; Components of a Static Generator; Static Generators Showcase; Jekyll; Octopress; Hexo; Pelican; Hugo; Brunch; Middleman; Metalsmith; Nanoc; Summary

Further ReadingPart II: The Fundamentals; Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Version Control; Parsing Engine; Markdown; Version Control; Installing Git; Jekyll Workflow; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 5: Fundamentals of Style; What Is Style?; Bootstrap; Foundation; Style Sheet Management: Sass; Style Sheet Management: LESS; Jekyll Themes; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Jekyll; Folders; Drafts and config; Includes; Layouts; Posts, data, and site; YAML; Liquid and Handlebars; Tags; Objects; Site Variables; Page Variables; Paginator Variables; Inheritance

Installing Jekyll Locally?Summary; Further Reading; Part III: Projects; Chapter 7: Blog-awareness; Getting the Theme; Installing a Code Editor; A Kactus in the Desert; The _includes Folder; The _layouts Folder; The _posts Folder; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Git It Done; Scope and Scale; Tools List; Just Do It; Font-Awesome; Navigation; Page Profile; Pagination; Post List; Share Buttons; Archive; Comments; MailChimp; Cleaning Up; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 9: Photo Blogging; Project Specification; Using GitHub; Deleting Repositories; Visual Tutorial; Dope Editing

Navigation BarPhotography Specialties; Portfolio; The Blog; Footer; Blog Post Layout; Embedding Photography; Content Delivery Network (CDN); MailChimp Campaign; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 10: Open Debates; Rules of the Game; Navigating GitHub; Repository Overview; Issues; Pull Requests; Wiki; Pulse and Graphs; GitHub Pages; Prototyping; Jekyll Collections; Theming the Debate; Phases; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 11: Open Research; A New Platform; KaTeX; Plot.ly; IPython; Reveal.js; Planning the Theme; Exploring Git; Git Internals; Distributed Development Model; Let's Git Coding

Writing EquationsAdding a Graph; Writing Bibliographies; Adding Notebooks; Making Presentations; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 12: Open Health Care; Overview; Introduction to Cards; Creating Cards; Writing a Quote Card; Content Guide; Writing in Prose; Prosing Through; Material Design; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 13: Open Jekyll?; Now Open: Jekyll Design Studio; A Ruby from Japan; Playing with Ruby; Gems of Ruby; A Bucket of Gems; Build Tools; Continuous Integration; Solid Studio; Fiverr and Gumroad; YouTube and Wistia; Shopping Cart; Prototyping in InVision; Customer Support

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