- Install Jekyll: The instructions are given in post
- Edit _config.yml file:
- Change baseurl to your folder name.
- Change the respective URLs and variable names.
- If you want to enable disqus comments, change dqs_shortname to your forum's disqus_shortname. Otherwise, turn comments to false.
- You might want to change the URLs in
_includes/link.htmlfile.
Now your science and technology blog is up and running. Happy blogging!
- Make sure you commit changes to the branch from which github pages are published.
- I have only tested this repository on Ubuntu 16.04. If everything doesn't work smoothly, you'll probably have to look it up.
This is a simple template for creating a Science and Technology Blog.
The code base is inspired from Emerald repository.
The template contain following features:
- This code-base is meant to host on github pages.
- Github pages uses Jekyll that can convert your markdown pages into beautiful looking blog pages without needing to write cumbersome HTML code.
- Once you set up the site, blogging becomes as fast as using any online service such as Wordpress, Blogger, etc.
- Since Github public repositories are free, you do not need to pay a cent to anyone for publishing your blog.
- The template has included Disqus comments. So, if enabled, your readers can comment on any of your posts.
- This also makes sharing your writings on social platforms easy.
- Disqus basic account is for free and avails you with most of its features.
- If you have a scientific mind and you do not shy away from equations, the website is MathJax enabled. You can simply type your math equations in Latex format.
- You can also demonstrate your code in
code blocks.
If you want to contribute to the repository to improve the code, feel free to submit a pull request.