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Jekyll In 15 Minutes

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Re: Jekyll In 15 Minutes

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Post by cheerleader »

Nice post. Despite what others said, there's a place for a quick overview of Jekyll. The Jekyll wiki (which, have they updated it recently? It seems more useful than I remember it), while comprehensive, covers far more information than you need to get up and running. A quickstart guide would have been handy when I was starting.

A couple things that might have been helpful would be to mention how to create new posts (since they have a specific format) and perhaps linking to a barebones deployment of Jekyll that followed along with your post (though you did link to your site, so kudos for that).

Keep on writing. A Jekyll plugin tutorial (as mentioned by ElongatedTowel) would indeed be a useful resource.

Re: Jekyll In 15 Minutes

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Post by programminggeek »

Jekyll is great, people should use it, but I wish there was more progress beyond Jekyll.

The thing that kind of blows about Jekyll is you kind of need the local Jekyll environment to build your site. I kind of am starting to get to a point where I want to be able to have some hybrid of a web interface and local dev. Something like using Github's distraction free writing to create the pages, then be able to publish without the local setup.

I guess I should just put a jekyll server in the cloud somewhere...

Re: Jekyll In 15 Minutes

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Post by fakeer »

I wish there was sth like this for Hyde and/or Pelican. I have tried a lot many times but it just, for some reason or other, fail to take off properly either on my Pi or AWS or WebFaction.

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Post by davidcelis »

programminggeek wrote: post #13

Jekyll is great, people should use it, but I wish there was more progress beyond Jekyll. The thing that kind of blows about Jekyll is you kind of need the local Jekyll environment to build your site. I kind of am starting to get to a point where I want to be able to have some hybrid of a web interface and local dev. Something like using Github's distraction free writing to create the pages, then be able to publish wi…

You can do that if you deploy your Jekyll blog to GitHub Pages (which, why wouldn't you?). Just go into your repo on their web interface, create your post file in distraction free "Zen mode", and commit.

Re: Jekyll In 15 Minutes

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Post by davidcelis »

kaoD wrote: post #2

And a nice blog framework built on top of it: http://octopress.org/

I just switched from Octopress to vanilla Jekyll. Octopress was a nice way to get started, but it wasn't very long until the reasons Octopress were simple became overly complex. Theme management (the main reason I wanted to use it) was badly implemented, and it had to be pretty hacky in order to deploy to GitHub Pages because of the heavy usage of custom plugins.

Re: Jekyll In 15 Minutes

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Post by swanson »

programminggeek wrote: post #13

Jekyll is great, people should use it, but I wish there was more progress beyond Jekyll. The thing that kind of blows about Jekyll is you kind of need the local Jekyll environment to build your site. I kind of am starting to get to a point where I want to be able to have some hybrid of a web interface and local dev. Something like using Github's distraction free writing to create the pages, then be able to publish wi…

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/june/25/prose-a-content...

Re: Jekyll In 15 Minutes

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Post by tuananh »

ollysb wrote: post #10
tuananh wrote: post #3

I don't know why this got upvoted. There's nothing new added that you can't find on Jekyll wiki.

Jekyll was something I've been meaning to try for ages. I never found a getting started section on the wiki and this blog was exactly what I was looking for.

oh please!! then what is this?

http://jekyllrb.com/docs/structure/

Re: Jekyll In 15 Minutes

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Post by ollysb »

tuananh wrote: post #18
ollysb wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jekyll was something I've been meaning to try for ages. I never found a getting started section on the wiki and this blog was exactly what I was looking for.

oh please!! then what is this? http://jekyllrb.com/docs/structure/

Yeah that's a fair point ;) To be honest though I never actually noticed the Getting started section on the right of the screen. I've never visited the site with the intention of building a site with jekyll at that moment so I was just skimming. If all the Getting started section pages were a single long page at http://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/ (like the sinatra docs) then I probably would have noticed them. I realise this is probably ridiculously pedantic though, I'm sure I would have found the information if I was trying to actually get started rather than just get a feel for how it works.
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