sinker/tacofancy — pull request #69 by santheo (2013-11-06 03:08:02+00:00)
Title: Converted the site to Jekyll

The repository now has all the configuration in place to work as a Jekyll-generated site on GitHub pages. You can see how it'll look by going to http://santheo.github.io/tacofancy/.

Two steps to getting it to work: first, you need to create a GitHub pages account for yourself. That's as easy as making a project called sinker.github.io and pushing it live. Maybe put an index.html in there for good measure. Second, create a gh-pages branch on your tacofancy project, and push that live. Then the TacoFancy site will live at sinker.github.io/tacofancy. That's it.

To run the site locally, you need to install Jekyll. Just navigate to the directory and type 'bundle install'. If that works, you then just need to type 'make server', navigate to 0.0.0.0:4000 in your browser, and you should be golden.

The site is configured to run at root locally and at /tacofancy on your GH Pages server. If you ever move to this to a domain (or point a domain at your GH Pages account), you'll need to change that. Easy to do: just modify the 'baseurl' setting in _config.yml.

The site runs on Bootstrap 3. I've added almost no extra styling to it beyond what comes out of the box. But this should give you and others a good starting point to style away.

Jekyll has a plug-in structure, so you & others could easily fold in all the automation efforts so the index pages get built up automatically. That'd be nice.