ChrisMorris.org - Scitechivity

Copyright © 2012-2017 Chris Morris

Overview

This is the source code for my personal website ChrisMorris.org. Feel free to browse and fork. If you have any questions, please contact me.

The site is powered by Jekyll, a static-site generator. Jekyll converts all posts and pages from Markdown into static HTML files. Compared to WordPress, this allows the site to load extremely fast and vastly reduces resources required to run the website.

Because the pages are static, I use JavaScript to include view counts and Disqus for the commenting system. View counts are recorded and accessed from a MySQL database via a simple Node.js script.

Design

At present I would appreciate it if you create your own design should you fork this repository, simply because I am branding my work with the current and previous design. Thank you!

Deployment

The website runs on an Nginx server, with supervisord running the Node application in the background. MySQL is also required for the view counter.

Have a read through the package.json file to see how you can run npm run push to do your blog writing on your local computer and have it rsync'd to your server.

For information on how to setup these services, I recommend checking out these articles:

• Installing Nginx on Debian/Ubuntu systems
• Configuring Nginx
• Installing Node
• Installing and Configuring Supervisord
• Running Supervisord Automatically on Startup

Background

Jekyll was suggested to me by Feross Aboukhadijeh. After seeing how fast his site loaded, I was sold. A lot of functionality of this website has been taken or inspired from feross.org