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title: Creating my web
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date: 2013-08-22 14:14:22
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tags:
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- starters
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- javascript
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- ruby
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- github
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- git
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I've finally decided to set up a decent personal page. I have settled
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2015-01-22 22:37:23 +00:00
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for github-pages because I like the idea of keeping my site in a
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repository and having someone else host and deploy it for me. The site
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will be really simple, mostly static files. Thanks to Github,
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[Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com) will automatically generate static pages
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for my posts every time I commit anything new to this repository.
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But Jekyll can be used independently, so if I ever choose to host the
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site myself, I can do it quite easily. Another thing that I liked about
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this approach is that the generated html files can be used in the
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future, and I will not need Jekyll to serve it. Jekyll is really simple
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and most of the things are written in plain html. That means that
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everything could be easily reused if I ever choose to change to another
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blogging framework (e.g. pelical). But, for the time being, I like the
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fact that Github takes care of the compilation as well, so I can simply
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modify or add files through the web interface should I need to.
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I hadn't played with HTML and CSS for a while now, so I also wanted to
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use this site as a playground. At some point, I realised I was doing
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mostly everything in plain HTML and CSS, and decided to keep it like
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that for as long as possible. As of this writing, I haven't included
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any Javascript code in the page. Probably I will use some to add my
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[gists](http://gist.github.com/balkian) and
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[repositories](http://github.com/balkian), but we will see about that.
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2019-01-10 19:26:53 +00:00
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I think the code speaks for itself, so you can check out [my repository
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on Github](http://github.com/balkian/balkian.github.com). You can clone
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and deploy it easily like this:
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```bash
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git clone
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https://github.com/balkian/balkian.github.com cd balkian.github.com
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jekyll serve -w
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```
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2015-12-08 00:40:08 +00:00
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I will keep updating this post with information about:
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2019-01-10 19:26:53 +00:00
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- Some Jekyll plugins that might be useful
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- What CSS tricks I learnt
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- The webfonts I used
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- The badge on the left side of the page
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