Building this website

Github pages is a great way to host a personal website, and I started this one there this week. By creating a specially named repository, your webpage code can be hosted straight from Github. If Github, markdown, and code aren’t old friends or at least intriguing acquaintances, a free website builder like Weebly it probably a better fit for building your website.

I started by learning about Github pages. I initialized my repo with the theme and pulled a copy to my computer for customization. My workflow is currently to make and commit changes locally then push them to Github; Github actions rebuilds and reloads the website and a minute later I check if my changes had the desired effect. Soon after getting started, I stumbled on Katerina Bosko’s helpful series on setting up and customizing the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme. Katerina describes setting up a Docker container for development which would be handy, but isn’t strictly necessary. The Minimal Mistakes documentation has also been very helpful.