git Jekyll-Github Pages blog starter template

A starter template to help you publish your blog to Github pages.

Installation

1. Download or clone this repo
2. Follow instructions to create your page on Github https://pages.github.com
3. You can update and preview your site locally by following these instructions https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-your-github-pages-site-locally-with-jekyll/
4. Update _config.yml
5. Commit and push

Writing a new post

1. Published posts reside in _posts directory and staging directory is _drafts.
2. You can manually writing new post by duplicating and modifying the existing Or,
3. Using command line locally, navigate to root directory of this project and enter ./blog newpost <post title>. This will generate a file (inside _posts directory) with today's date/time and post title as the file name. Open it and modify accordingly. When ready, move it to _posts
4. Commit and push
5. Other options for ./blog command are:
   1. newdraft <post title> - Creates a file in _drafts directory
   2. publish - adds, commits and pushes your changes
   3. serve - runs bundle exec jekyll serve on the local enviroment