03--Return-of-the-Jekyll.md

[thedonz]

Objectives

Demonstrate understanding of:

• Use of a Static Site Generator like Jekyll or Octopress
• Basic templating concepts and content insertion
• URL structure: absolute, server-relative, page-relative
• Selectively merging history and checking out work in git

  Directions

Now that you have a responsive version of your site, it's time to break it up into a Jekyll theme so that Github can publish it for you automatically. You should:

Setup

Small (1)

• [x] Create a new branch on your [username].github.io and TIY-Assignments repos called return-of-jekyll.
• [x] Create a branch in both repos called return-of-jekyll and commit your work into those
• [x] Create a folder in your TIY-Assignments repository called 02--Return-of-the-Jekyll to put your work in

  Part One

Large (5)

• [x] Read the documentation for Jekyll Medium (3)
• [x] Create a (empty) _layouts/ and _includes/ directory and _config.yml file
• [x] Copy your index.html file into _layouts/default.html
• [x] Replace the contents of the main column _layouts/default.html with the {{content}} template tag
• [x] Remove everything from index.html except the contents of the main column.
• [x] Add YAML Front Matter to index.html so that Jekyll will build _site/index.html using _layout/default.html
• [x] Run jekyll build and check the results! If your site builds, merge to master but keep your branch...!
• [x] Use git checkout to selectively merge the content from the _posts/ directory in your old-master; see me if you're lost
• [ ] The command jekyll build should create posts in _site/ that are also wrapped in _layout/default.html; if not, fix it
• [ ] Link all your posts in your index.html file, rebuild, and follow the 2:+1:'s process
• Deploy to Github!