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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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.
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My Domain is My Playground
Whenever I want to test or try something out, I do one of three things; I create a new pen on CodePen, push some files to a new Surge project, or I’ll try it out live on my personal site or blog. The last one in that list is my favourite thing to do.
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Jekyll Conf Lightning Talk
Recently I was asked by CloudCannon to record a lightning talk for Jekyll Conf. It was a great opportunity to contribute to the Jekyll community. You can watch all the talks from the day on YouTube.
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How to Create an Open Source Portfolio
One really useful aspect of GitHub repos is that they allow us to host static websites thanks to GitHub Pages. But did you know that you can dynamically display all your GitHub repos on your website as well? In this tutorial I’m going to show you a great little trick using repository metadata to create a portfolio of your open source projects.
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Could GitHub Make a CMS?
Following on from my previous article, I wanted to explore the idea of GitHub making a CMS. What would it be? How would it work? Why would they even do it?
To break down this hypothetical concept, I’m going to use the Five Ws, otherwise known as “Who, What, Where, When and Why?”.
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Building a Site Entirely on Github.com
Have you ever thought:
What’s the minimum I need in order to build a site?
I’ve thought about it quite a bit. So much so, I like to test my theories out in personal projects; in this case, my own portfolio site. However, I might have taken it a bit too far.
If I can create a simple functioning site using GitHub Pages and GitHub.com has a web interface, why can’t I build a site entirely in the browser? I mean, how hard could it be?
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New Site Structure: Mission Complete
Finally upgraded the rest of my site and blog to Jekyll & GitHub Pages. There’s still some bugs here and there, but at least it’s out there! If you see anything out of place just let me know.
So after converting my main site to Jekyll, I have now switched my blog over to it. Along with my new open source site, which lists everything from my GitHub account.