OK, YES it's a blog that I'm trying to keep to myself and not advertise as a blog, while still having it be online and public.
Built with Lanyon.
Lanyon is a theme built on top of Poole, which provides a fully furnished Jekyll setup—just download and start the Jekyll server. See the Poole usage guidelines for how to install and use Jekyll.
Lanyon includes some customizable options, typically applied via classes on the <body> element.
Create a list of nav links in the sidebar by assigning each Jekyll page the correct layout in the page's front-matter.
---
layout: page
title: About
---
Why require a specific layout? Jekyll will return all pages, including the atom.xml, and with an alphabetical sort order. To ensure the first link is Home, we exclude the index.html page from this list by specifying the page layout.
Lanyon ships with eight optional themes based on the base16 color scheme. Apply a theme to change the color scheme (mostly applies to sidebar and links).
There are eight themes available at this time.
To use a theme, add any one of the available theme classes to the <body> element in the default.html layout, like so:
<body class="theme-base-08">
...
</body>To create your own theme, look to the Themes section of included CSS file. Copy any existing theme (they're only a few lines of CSS), rename it, and change the provided colors.
Reverse the page orientation with a single class.
<body class="layout-reverse">
...
</body>Make the sidebar overlap the viewport content with a single class:
<body class="sidebar-overlay">
...
</body>This will keep the content stationary and slide in the sidebar over the side content. It also adds a box-shadow based outline to the toggle for contrast against backgrounds, as well as a box-shadow on the sidebar for depth.
It's also available for a reversed layout when you add both classes:
<body class="layout-reverse sidebar-overlay">
...
</body>Show an open sidebar on page load by modifying the <input> to add the checked boolean attribute:
<input type="checkbox" class="sidebar-checkbox" id="sidebar-checkbox" checked>Using Liquid you can also conditionally show the sidebar open on a per-page basis. For example, here's how you could have it open on the homepage only:
<input type="checkbox" class="sidebar-checkbox" id="sidebar-checkbox" {% if page.title =="Home" %}checked{% endif %}>Create tags with _tools/createTag 'Pretty Name'. Tag posts by adding tags: [tag-name] to the front matter of post files.
For example:
- Create a new tag called using-git
$ ./_tools/createTag 'Using git'
- Create a new post file:
_posts/2014-12-31-how-to-clone-a-repository.md
---
layout: post
title: How to clone a repository
tags: [using-git, documentation]
---
See the [GitHub topic](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/). It's pretty good.
- Add, commit, and push the updates:
$ git add _data/tags.yml
$ git add tag/using-git.md
$ git add _posts/2014-12-31-how-to-clone-a-repository.md
$ git commit -m "Add new tag and post"
$ git push
6/25/18 Notes - by Nina
I'm new to running shell scripts. I got a permission error, so had to run chmod +x createTag to make the script executable. Then the original instructions were out of date. The script takes one input, not two. You pass it just the quoted "pretty" tag name. I've updated the documentation to reflect this.
For reference - what the script does to create a new tag is:
- Checks to see if the tag already exists.
- Creates a url-friendly slug of the tag name.
- Adds the slug and pretty name to the
_data/tags.ymlfile in the following format:- slug: [tag-slug] name: [tag-pretty-name] - Creates a new file in the
tag/folder of the form[tag-slug].mdwith the following content:--- layout: posts_by_tag tag: [tag-slug] title: Posts tagged [tag-pretty-name] ---
Lanyon has two branches, but only one is used for active development.
masterfor development. All pull requests should be to submitted againstmaster.gh-pagesfor our hosted site, which includes our analytics tracking code. Please avoid using this branch.
Mark Otto
Open sourced under the MIT license.
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