Octopress

Some notes on setting up Octopress to work with GitHub pages.

You, too, can have a glamorous GitHub page like mine! http://charlesreid1.github.io/

Setting Up Octopress with Github Personal Page

You can create a repository that hosts static web content and is available at http://username.github.io - and you can use Octopress to deploy the static content from your markdown files.

This whole procedure gets a little lengthy, but my entire procedure is covered here:

Octopress/Octopress with Github Personal Pages

Setting Up Octopress with Github Project Pages

We saw above that Octopress enables you to set up an Octopress directory to work with a Github personal page repository.

But we may also want to set up Octopress for a project page repository - so that we can keep static web content relevant to the project that consists of a project blog and a set of project pages.

Octopress/Octopress with Github Project Pages

Adding Non-Blog Content to Octopress

What if I wanna add an "about me" page? Then I can use the rake new_post command. See this page for details:

Octopress/Adding Non-Blog Content