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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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.
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New Site Structure: Phase One Complete
When I say phase one I mean darn.es, and when I say new site structure I mean this plan I wrote up.
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My Screencasting Setup
A while ago I created a screencast series called ‘Baking Bread.li’, this was in preparation for a course for Tuts+ called ‘Building Websites with BaseKit’. In order to make the course I needed to get some equipment together.
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New Site Structure Plans
I’m currently in the process of shifting things over from old to new with regards to my personal site. As many others, I also suffer from “leaving personal work until last”. In my last article related to this I said I’d be switching my WordPress content over from it to this site. Currently I’ve only transferred the articles and they are sitting in drafts. This is mainly because I’ve yet to style some elements on this site, such as images in articles. Plus I’m avoiding the dreaded domain transfer process, which shouldn’t be hard now I’ve documented it.