Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, March 2, 2025, and this is show number 1034.
Audio PlayerPBS 177: Publishing A Basic Jekyll Site (GitHub Pages)
On Programming By Stealth in our miniseries on GitHub Pages this week, we learned how to create a basic Jekyll site. To do this, we needed to install a modern version of Ruby, install its Gem Bundler, create a little placeholder site, and then serve Jekyll to view our site locally. We pushed it to GitHub where the GitHub Actions we learned about last time do their magic and create a real website all for free. But we didn’t stop there. One of our goals is to create our own theme, and to build on what we get with Bootstrap. We actually download the source, not compiled version of Bootstrap and then pick and choose the files we want to use. While learning about the standard conventions for directory structure in Jekyll sites, we’ll also learn about Sass — Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets — and how Jekyll will turn them into standard CSS.
It’s a bit of a heavy lift in terms of a lot of moving pieces, but no one bit of this was hard to learn. It was great fun, and this is just the beginning of what we’re going to learn about using Jekyll as a fully-functional content management system.
You can find Bart’s fabulous tutorial shownotes and the audio podcast at pbs.bartificer.net.
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