Left is a clean, whitespace-happy layout for Jekyll.
This is designed to be an easy layout to modify for your own blog. It was extracted from zachholman.com, which means it was battle-hardened from years of posting serious blog posts about emoji and swear words.
gem install jekyll
git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USER/left
jekyll --server
You should have a server up and running locally at http://localhost:4000.
rake post title="A Title" [date="2012-02-09"] [tags=[tag1, tag2]]
rake page name="about.html"
# You can also specify a sub-directory path.
# If you don't specify a file extention we create an index.html at the path specified
Next you'll want to change a few things. Most of them can be changed directly in _config.yml. That's where we'll pull your name, Twitter username, and things like that.
There's a few other places that you'll want to change, too:
example.com
).You should deploy with GitHub Pages- it's just easier.
All you should have to do is rename your repository on GitHub to be
username.github.com
. Since everything is on the gh-pages
branch, you
should be able to see your new site at http://username.github.com.
This is MIT with no added caveats, so feel free to use this on your site without linking back to me or using a disclaimer or anything silly like that.
If you'd like give me credit somewhere on your blog or tweet a shout out to @holman, well hey, I'll take it.