golfecholima / bygeorge

Personal static site using Pelican

bygeorge

A personal static site using Pelican.

How To ...

A word of caution for CodeKit users: CodeKit will generate HTML output from Markdown (so does Pelican), duplicating the efforts typically into the wrong directory. Turn this off to avoid utter madness.

Set up virtualenv and install Pelican

(Just do this. Small headache now is better than chronic migraine later.)

1. pip install virtualenv (Google it.)
2. Create a folder called virtualenvs wherever you keep your projects.
3. In command line type: virtualenv [wherever-your-virtualenvs-dir-is]/pelican
4. Change to that newly created pelican directory.
5. Type: source bin/activate (You should see (pelican) appear at the beginning of your command prompt.)
6. Type: pip install pelican markdown typogrify
7. Type: pelican-quickstart and follow the instructions. Be sure to specify a directory where you want your site to live otherwise all your site files will be dumped into your virtualenv root. (More info here.)

Work with a remote GitHub repository and a second computer

1. Upload whatever directory you chose to build your site in (Step 7 above) to a fresh repository.
2. On your second machine follow steps 1 through 6.
3. Change to your pelican directory and clone the repository: git clone [link-to-your-repository].
4. Carry on with development and push changes back to the remote on GitHub.

To Do ...

• Style changes
  • Image handling
  • Explore menu options
    • Idea: Fixed footer w/ 3 button nav.
• IFTTT integrations
  • Take a photo >> post to blog
  • Tag an Evernote >> post to somewhere
• CV/résumé
• Look into Piwik analytics
• Explore plugins