Articles, tutorials and other ramblings
Articles about web design, development and some personal ones thrown in. Check out my portfolio.
Dave's Blog
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Making your first Jekyll theme: Part 2
In Part 1, I gave an overview of creating themes for Jekyll and a few tips for when you’re developing your own theme. In this second part, I’m going to give a full step-by-step guide to developing your own Jekyll theme gem.
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Making your first Jekyll theme: Part 1
By nature, any well structured site that has easily editable content is ‘themeable’ — a layer, or skin, that presents content in the way the owner or creator intended; Jekyll is no different. Pages, posts and any other form of formatted content can be segregated from the templating files.
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Adding heading links to your Jekyll blog
Just a brief JavaScript trick to get anchor links added to your Jekyll blog post headings
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What Do We Look For In A CMS?
I posed this question in several forms on Twitter to get feedback from the community. After some consideration, polls and great discussion, I came up with a list of aspects that people consider when looking for a CMS.
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My Worst Job Interview
My worst job interview didn’t get me very far; not even into their office. It was just a phone call. It was a brief and kind of upsetting moment in my early career. Allow me to explain why I think this was my worst interview.
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How to Create a Jekyll Theme Gem
One of Jekyll’s noteworthy new features is the ability create official themes in the form of Ruby gems. These themes can be installed by a Jekyll user to style their static blog or website with ease, leaving them to manage their content.
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Adding Siteleaf to a GitHub Pages site
I’ve been using Siteleaf a lot recently, for both my day job and personal projects. In light of this, I decided to create a screencast of myself going through the process of adding Siteleaf to a pre-existing site running on GitHub Pages. As additional reference, I’ve documented the process below.
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I Put CSS in My HTML and Nothing Exploded
When I first felt comfortable with front-end web development, I thought inline CSS was a filthy thing to do; something that could only be done in haste or from poor implementation. Thankfully, I’m a little wiser now and can understand that there is almost always a reason behind the implementation.