EBI-Boilerplate-Jekyll

Get up and running with EBI-themed Jekyll fast (rolled with gh-pages in mind, clone/fork suggested)

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How to use this

This Jekyll template was designed in mind with GitHub pages, you'll certainly be able to use it to start a traditional Jekyll project, but the information below is specifically tailored with GitHub in mind.

1. Getting started

• Clone this repo
• Ensure you are working in the gh-pages branch

2. Basic setup

• Edit _config.yml and set your GitHub URL and project name

3. Add content

• Create new posts in _posts
• Create new pages by adding them to the root folder, see sample_page_1.html

Configuring your domain name

Full documentation is available here.

1. Configure the gh-pages branch

• Create a CNAME file
• Add yourdomainname.com to that file

2. Configrue your domain name's DNS

• Add a CNAME for www to point to yourusername.github.io
• If you want to point the root domainname.com to gh-pages, set the A record to 192.30.252.153
• You can also set a second A recored to 192.30.252.154
• When you're done it should look like:

Record	Type	Value
@	A	192.30.252.153
@	A	192.30.252.154
WWW	CNAME	your_github_username.github.io