denisecase.github.io

Personal website content for http://denisecase.github.io/.

Setup

• Hosted (for free!) by GitHub Pages.
• Powered by Jekyll static site generator.
• Initialized with Poole, the Jekyll starter setup.
• Styled with Hyde, a Poole theme.

Resources

• Git for Windows - enables Git BASH
• TortoiseGit - Git integration with File Explorer

Guides

• "Getting Started with GitHub Pages"
• Joshua Lande's "How I Created a Beautiful and Minimal Blog Using Jekyll, Github Pages, and poole".

Utilities

• to-markdown - converts HTML to Markdown
• Favicon Generator - creates a full set of icons

Initial setup

• Download Ruby installer from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/.
• Check all boxes and install.

Open Git Bash window in the github.io folder:

gem install jekyll
gem install bundler
gem install jekyll-paginate
gem install jekyll-gist
gem install wdm
gem install github-pages
gem update all
jekyll -v

Test Locally

In _config.yml add:

port: 4000

Open Git Bash window in the github.io folder:

jekyll serve

Open browser to: http://localhost:4000/.