Building this blog
To start this blog, here’s a quick summary of how I built this blog:
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Created a fork of Poole, which appealed as a simple and clean framework. The Lanyon subtheme was very close but rather than use that directly I cherry picked a few simple elements.
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Followed this setup guide to get Jekyll updated and setup with GitHub Pages, using my default
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Initially I tried to get LiveReload working using this excellent post, Setting up LiveReload with Jekyll, but found it problematic to actually get the livereloading working. While digging around to solve that I found hawkins, which is simpler and just seems to work.
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Registered and setup a custom domain. I chose a
wwwsubdomain as it has a few additional benefits.
I’ve worked with Jekyll before, notably on experimenting with styleguides, so am keen to use it also for blogging :-)