I followed this guide to set up a blog using Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
I’ve tried building my own blogging platform, and I’ve tried WordPress, and now I’m trying Jekyll.
On a good downward curve of complexity then.
So far, Jekyll feels like it’s “just enough” software.
Just enough to allow me to blog, not enough to distract me.
Just trying to figure out the basics now.
- How to Create Post Draft In Jekyll - simple but “just enough”
- Yet another theme - the theme that I chose
- Twitter Card Validator - to see how stuff looks when posted to Twitter
To add an image and description to a post (banner is for the blog, image is for the metadata)…
banner: /assets/images/banners/image.jpg
image: /assets/images/banners/image.jpg
description: Some sort of detailed description
I’m using this ImageMagick command to turn my photos into banner images.
It crops the top section and darkens slightly too.
#!/bin/sh
FILENAME=$1
GRAVITY="${2:-North}"
convert $FILENAME -brightness-contrast -20x-50 -resize 1920x960\^ -gravity $GRAVITY -extent 1920x960 $(basename "$FILENAME" .jpg)-banner.jpg