Documentation for 18MR.org campaigners. References for your daily campaign work, with illustrated screenshots. Most technical walkthroughs are for Macintosh, since that's the prevailing OS used by campaigners.
If you have questions, please create a new issue!
- How to set up Jekyll on your local machine for the first time. External link; walkthrough for Mac OSX.
- How to get a local version of a site up and running.
- Make sure your personal fork is up to date every time you begin work.
- When you've created a hot new campaign and want to feature it on the homepage, you do this.
- A quick and easy guide to creating a new blog post.
- There are a lot of other data types you can work with, like staff bios.
- Some tips on creating a pretty press release.
- How to take your brilliant campaign copy and make it into a petition on Action Network.
- Then, take that petition and turn it into a webpage.
- Creating a new call-in campaign is easier than ever.
- A foolproof Markdown cheat sheet. External link.
- Learn the basics of creating commits and pull requests.
- Got a weird question? Maybe this FAQ will help.
- Help! What do I do if I'm stuck?.
- Pushing to Amazon Web Services.
- Links to additional information, should you need it.