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title: "Creating my web"
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date: 2013-08-22 14:14:22
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tags: starters javascript ruby github git
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Finally, I've decided to finally set up a decent personal page. I have settled for github-pages because I like the idea of keeping my site in a repository and having someone else host it and deploy it for me. The site will be really simple, mostly static files, but [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com) creates the static pages for the posts automatically every time I commit anything new to the repository.
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Jekyll can be used independently, so if I ever choose to host the site myself, I can do it quite easily. Another thing that I liked about this approach is that the generated html files can be used in the future, and I will not need Jekyll to serve it. Jekyll is really simple and most of the things are written in plain html. Everything could be easily reused if I ever choose to change to another blogging framework.
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I hadn't played with HTML and CSS for a while now, so I also wanted to use this site as a playground for the capabilities of HTML5. At some point, I realised I was doing mostly everything in plain HTML and CSS, and decided to keep it like that for as long as possible. At of this writing, I haven't included any Javascript code in the page. Probably I will use some to add my [gists](http://gist.github.com/balkian) and [repositories](http://github.com/balkian), but we will see about that.
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I think the code speaks for itself, so you can check out [my repository on Github](http://github.com/balkian/balkian.github.com). You can clone and deploy it easily like this:
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{% highlight bash %}
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git clone https://github.com/balkian/balkian.github.com
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cd balkian.github.com
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jekyll serve -w
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{% endhighlight %}
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I will keep updating this post with information about:
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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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