Public-Website

This is the website for Sheffield Hackspace. The site is written using Jekyll. Posts and updates from members are welcome just make a PR.

Styles

Fonts

The header font used is "Big Noodle Titling" (WOFF2).

The body font used is "Fira Sans".

Making changes

All changes should be made as a pull request to main. All changes require a PR review from one trustee.

How to build

Using Docker

Install docker and docker compose.

To start the site run docker-compose up then navigate to http://localhost:4000/Public-Website/ in your browser

To update the gemfile.lock if you have changed a plugin run docker-compose run jekyll bundle update

Using Jekyll locally

Note: for debugging only, you should use Docker to see the website as it will look when built.

sudo apt-get install ruby-full
gem install bundler
bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle'
bundle install

Serve. This is the same command used in the docker compose file.

bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --force_polling --verbose

How to add a blog post

1. Add a markdown file to _posts of the format 2024-03-09-font-workshop.md

2. Add front matter meta data. This can be copied and edited from another post. An example is

   ---
   id: 2150
   title: 'Computer font making workshop'
   date: '2024-03-09T00:05:46+01:00'
   author: 'alifeee'
   layout: post
   guid: 'https://www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk/?p=2150'
   permalink: /font-workshop/
   categories:
       - Uncategorized
   tags:
       - workshop
   ---
   

   For ID, add 10 to the previous post ID. For guid, use the ID. For other keys, make an educated guess or copy from a previous post.

3. For images:

   1. Add a folder under /assets/blog/ with the same name as the blog post.

   2. Use markdown image formatting, and use the {{ baseurl }} short code for the base URL. For example

      ![Hand-drawn sign saying "font making workshop"]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/blog/2024-03-09-font-workshop/workshop-sign.jpg)
      

4. Create a pull request!

   1. It is helpful if you enable GitHub pages on your repository Fork, so a preview can be seen.