A Test Blog

Why jekyll rocks!

Some reasons why Jekyll is great

• markdown!
• html pass-through
• code syntax highlighting
• liquid templating
• html, css, javascript, json, yaml etc
• git/Github for versioning and hosting
• Github provided CDN
• static content already optimised for seo
• custom dns using cname redirect
• support tags, categories and list filtering
• content and presentation can be separated with gitsubmodules
• for multiuser content blog - git/Github permissions management of roles, groups
• multiple sites per github account using project pages and cnames
• no other hosting, db, webserver, ssl termination, firewall, backup, automation needed
• no cron copy job

refs

• Submodules and clean separation between structure and content
  • posts git submodule example https://github.com/thebearjew/thebearjew.github.io
  • post http://jry.io/posts/make-your-jekyll-blog-awesome-with-git-submodules/

• Nice Tutorial and Intro http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole/

• Github pages jekyll plugins list https://pages.github.com/versions/

• Multiple sites under one Github account http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/42455/publishing-more-than-one-site-on-github-pages

• Project structure - local and Gihub http://jekyllrb.com/docs/github-pages/#project-page-url-structure

• Templates http://jekyllrb.com/docs/templates

• Jekyl config.yml https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-jekyll/

• Adding Google comments will improve seo http://steelx.github.io/best-internet-tips/2014/11/23/Add-google-plus-comments-box-to-jekyll-website.html

• dns apex on route53 is a bit limited http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16022324/how-to-setup-dns-for-an-apex-domain-no-www-pointing-to-a-heroku-app

• https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151954

• Also seems as though cannot do double cname to github, but could probably use this, redirector or else set up an instance to do 301 http redirect http://wwwizer.com/naked-domain-redirect

• Download static content pdf, binaries etc http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32673993/how-do-i-provide-files-for-download

• Datafiles - json, yaml etc. https://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/
  • this provides a good mechanism, to control content creation - eg. could create index pages.
  • only thing missing is really zip files,
• Seo - eg. filling in title and meta description tags
  • http://jekyll.tips/tutorials/seo/
• Tags do work on Github pages, see
  • http://blog.meinside.pe.kr/Adding-tag-cloud-and-archives-page-to-Jekyll/
• Front matter is in YAML! http://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/