Learning Jekyll By Example

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Last updated on 2013-02-10

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In what can only be explained as the Ultimate Jekyll Tutorial, you will learn how to build a Jekyll website start to finish. From a blank folder on your file system, you will learn how to install Ruby, Jekyll, and the various modules it depends on. You will then build a full, working Jekyll blog from scratch using the Twitter Bootstrap framework and deploy it on Amazon S3.

"Learning Jekyll By Example" will teach you everything you need to know about publishing a Jekyll website.

Select portions of the tutorial are available for free on my website, but by purchasing the book from Leanpub, you'll receive a DRM free PDF, Mobi, and E Pub book with the entire walkthrough. As a bonus, the full book contains additional tutorials on optimizing your Jekyll website for search engines, speeding your website up with resource bundling and Amazon's CloudFront content distribution network, and a command line reference guide. You'll also get a Glossary of Terms filled with Jekyll-related material, as well as bonus material, including the files for the completed tutorial.

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Andrew Munsell

I am a college student attending the University of Washington with experience in several programming languages. My story dates back to 2009 when the original Palm Pre came out running the WebOS platform. Interested in Palm's forward thinking and the use of web technologies in a mobile phone, I began to develop for WebOS. After several successes that gained recognition from Palm and resulted in an invite to the then-exclusive WebOS App Catalog, I made it big when an app, Pixi Dust, won the $50,000 prize in the Palm Hot Apps competition, beating other games such as Angry Birds.

Since then, I've moved on to programming for the Mac, Windows 8, and iOS. I love technology, but my interest for medicine also has allowed me to blend my two passions by working on applications in the field of Radiology. Most recently, I presented at the Radiological Society of North America conference in Chicago, Illinois.

Introduction to Jekyll
Prerequisites
Why Jekyll?
Moving from Tumblr
Wordpress.org
Hosted Wordpress
Jekyll
Who Jekyll is For
Building a Jekyll Website, Start to Finish
Installing Jekyll
Mac OS X
RDiscount
Pygments
Windows
RDiscount
Starting Your Website
_config.yml
_includes
_layouts
_posts
Adding Content
Using Auto-Generate and the Jekyll Server
Building the Theme
Download Bootstrap
Creating a Layout
Liquid Template System
Using Includes
_layouts/default.html
_includes/header.html
_includes/footer.html
Building a Sidebar
Setting Up Blog Posts
Post Dummy Content
Introduction to Post Loops
The Main Loop
Filters
Post Content Pages
Pagination
Challenge
Creating a Static Page
Solution
Deploying to Amazon S3
Using Your Own Domain Name
Changing DNS on CloudFlare
Accessing Your Website Without a “www”
Changing DNS on Amazon Route 53
Conclusion
Command Line Reference
cd
jekyll
Installing Jekyll Plugins
Sitemap Plugin
Optimizing Your Jekyll Website For Search Engines
SEO Overview
Relevent Content
Keywords
Meta Descriptions
Author Rank
Custom Meta Descriptions
Author Rank in Jekyll
Optimizing Load Times
Resource Bundling
Installing the Jekyll Asset Pipeline
Concatenating CSS
Combining Javascript Files
Deploying on Amazon CloudFront
Configuring Your CloudFront Distribution
Changing Your Domain’s DNS (Again)
Extra Materials and Goodies
Glossary of Terms

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