Blog template

This is a simple template for a blog.

Initial setup

• goto Settings and scroll down to GitHub Pages section

• switch the None option to master branch

• edit _config.yml file and follow the instructions in the comments

• edit the about.md file to include some information about yourself (make sure that you are using markdown to format this page)

• Follow instructions in the _config.yml file to customize it.

• Use the files in _posts as a template for blog posts. The file HAS to be names with a date of the post followed by the title: YYYY-MM-DD-tiltle.md

Creating blog posts

The blog posts (weekly or otherwise) are created by adding markdown formatted files to the _posts directory. The file name has to match a very specific format YYYY-MM-DD-TITLE.md, for example 2018-01-28-week01.md. The template should contain a file for the first one or two posts for the students to use. Each of the files corresponds to a single blog post.

Changing layouts (optional)

The provided template has a very simple design. Each student can customize this basic layout by changing the files in _layouts directory, index.html file and style.scss file. For more information about it, go through Jekyll documentation pages.