Carpentry mini workshop: Building Websites with Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab

Are you already familiar version control with Git and an online collaborative platform like GitHub or GitLab? Are you willing to make a nice website using GitHub and GitLab Pages? Excellent Carpentries instructors will guide you to learn Jekyll step-by-step. The workshop is hosted by UW-Madison but open to others.

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Learning outcomes 

By the end of the workshop, learners will be able to:
  • create formatted page content with Markdown
  • configure their project to build and serve pages on GitHub
  • build a coherent site with multiple pages using the Jekyll framework
  • customise the layout and style of the pages on their site

Prerequisites 

Before following this lesson, learners should be able to:

  • create a repository/project on GitHub and/or GitLab.
  • clone a local copy of a project with Git, add and commit modified files, and push/pull changes between local and remote repositories.
  • execute commands in the shell

Setup and Syllabus

Read information about setup and syllabus on the lesson page.

Sign up

This workshop is hosted by University of Wisconsin-Madison as a part of their fall-semester mini-workshop series. "Building Websites with Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab" workshops are held twice; on the 11th and the 25th November. The workshops on both dates are exactly same. Please choose either date, 11th or 25th November, in the list right below the grey box in the linked page from the "sign up" button below.  

If you have questions regarding the workshop, please contact Ann Claire Fouilloux (a.c.fouilloux@geo.uio.no) for more information.

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Tags: Jekyll, carpentry, Web publishing, Markdown
Published July 2, 2021 10:32 AM - Last modified Mar. 11, 2024 11:01 AM