Portfolio Website

Contents

• Key Points
• Features
• The Tech
  • Jekyll
  • Python

Key Points

• Static webpages which are generated by Jekyll and then deployed on GitHub Pages.
• Content is written using Markdown and Liquid, and styled by HTML and CSS.
• The Liquid templating engine is used to dynamically generate content and pages.

Features

Why build websites when you can generate them? Add in free hosting and you've got a winner. At least this was my thinking when I made this thing.

Jekyll - a static site generator - allows me to write simple Markdown files which are automatically converted into static webpages when pushed to my repo.

Pages can be as simple as you like, but my implementation makes extensive use of Liquid templates to dynamically generate content.

Here I used Liquid also auto generate linkable tags.

The Tech

Jekyll

• Used for static webpage generation. I simply write Markdown files, spruce them up with a little CSS and HTML, and deploy.
• Deployed on GitHub Pages - the Jekyll generate process is run when pushed to the repo. A simple, free, setup-less deployment process.
• Is easy to get started with, yet has great extensibility for more advanced content.

Python

• Used for generating tag pages - the pages you go to when you click a tag.
• It simply parses projects, finds all tags, and creates simple definition files.
• Jekyll generates the final web pages whilst Liquid dynamically links to them.