What's Jekyll?

06 Feb 2012

Jekyll is a static site generator, an open-source tool for creating simple yet powerful websites of all shapes and sizes. From the project’s readme:

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory […] and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub.

It’s an immensely useful tool and one we encourage you to use here with Hyde.

Find out more by visiting the project on GitHub.

Markup: Syntax Highlighting

05 Feb 2012
Post displaying the various ways one can highlight code blocks with Jekyll. Some options include standard Markdown, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and Jekyll's `{% highlight %}` tag. More …

Layout: Excerpt (Defined)

04 Feb 2012 • Layout
This is a user-defined post excerpt. It should be displayed in place of the auto-generated excerpt or post content on index pages.

Layout: Excerpt (Generated with Separator Tag)

03 Feb 2012 • Layout

This is the post content. Archive-index pages should display an auto-generated excerpt of all the content preceding the excerpt_separator, as defined in the YAML Front Matter or globally in _config.yml.

Be sure to test the formatting of the auto-generated excerpt, to ensure that it doesn’t create any layout problems.

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