jekyll-netlify-minimal-notes-and-project

Platforms

• Jekyll
• Netlify CMS
• Bootstrap Navbar

Goal

• Create Notes and organize them by the course

  • mathematics, geography, etc

• Create groups for courses

  • fall 2019, winter 2019, etc

• Dedicated Projects 'Course' to blog about specific projects

  • already initialized in template

Pages

• Landing Page shows recent posts and an RSS feed
• Notes Page shows notes organized by Course Groups in a bootstrap accordion
  • the leaves of the accordion are the Courses
  • the notes for that course are listed under the leaf expansion
• Projects Page shows all the posts under the Projects class

Post Netlify Deploy

• In the Netlify account

  • Enable Identity
  • Enable Github Gateway

• Create a login with Sign Up in the admin tab

  • login after authenticating email

• Ensure adding new course groups shows up

  • in the selction of course group option
  • while creating new courses

• Ensure adding new courses shows up in the

  • in the selection of the course option
  • when creating new posts

• In case you want to add Trello Board or some Kanban-type tracker board, use the Progress Board Page

  • simple paste the URL

Usage Notes

• it takes some time (depends on latency on the netlify server and your internet connection)
  • for the newly added courses and course group options to populate the dropdown menu
  • sometimes this is almost 20-25 minutes
• current depoly status can be monitored
  • in the Deploy tab of your website in Netlify
• refresh the page bunch of times after the deploy has completed
  • if the options dont show up immediately