Website Inception

Website Inception

How to make a simple website for m7xer.com?

Goals

• Use markdown to create articles
• Use Jekyll to render these as HTML
• Create some styling assets
• Serve these from surge.sh / github/ bitbucket etc…
• Allow for extension later to do more dynamic pages
• Use github flavoured markdown so we can have nice tables and code

Steps taken

• Install Jekyll
• Peruse the web (see references)
• mkdir jekyll && cd jekyll/

  bundle init
  Writing new Gemfile to m7xer/jekyll/Gemfile
  bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle'
  bundle add jekyll
  bundle exec jekyll new --force --skip-bundle .
  bundle install
  bundle exec jekyll serve
  

• Update _config.yml
• Add _posts by following the guide here
• Deploy to surge
• Sort out domain

References

• https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/macos/
• https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/working-with-github-pages/testing-your-github-pages-site-locally-with-jekyll
• https://jekyllrb.com/tutorials/using-jekyll-with-bundler/
• https://jekyllrb.com/docs/posts/
• https://surge.sh/help/adding-a-custom-domain
• https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/common_operations/link_domain_to_website.html