Brings the blog, staff photos, other content into Jekyll

[gboone]

There are three main things going on here: the creation of templates for blog posts, moving the staff photos into a YAML file, and injecting that YAML data into the index.html template. This makes the site look ostensibly the same as the 18f.gsa.gov you see today.

For the blog: instead of using JS to pull post data out of tumblr's we're serving out the raw HTML stuffed into a jekyll template. I used jekyll-import to dump the html from the pots out of tumblr. The one caveat is that our tags list is currently linked to the respective archives on tumblr but, because Jekyll doesn't fully support tags (as far as I can tell) we can't link to those archives.

For the staff photos: I created a yaml file in the _data directory with an entry for each person. Right now the keys are just name and full_name but the super upshot in using this over copying and pasting new html is the slimmed down template code and the ability to extend out the ways we visualize our team.

The last piece that both of those above feed into is significantly simplified templates. This commit cuts more than 200 lines out of the index.html template and adds reusable templates for blog posts.

[leahbannon]

The one caveat is that our tags list is currently linked to the respective archives on tumblr but, because Jekyll doesn't fully support tags (as far as I can tell) we can't link to those archives.

I think we can use "categories" for that: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/

[meiqimichelle]

Copying the gist of a Slack conversation on the point of tagging in Jekyll here:

• Yes, the tagging thing via categories can be done. The code in general to do this is {% for post in site.categories.[TAG] %} [HTML for post here] {% endfor %}
• We should also look into Jekyll 2's new collections feature since we're running that version now (we're not sure if applies or not, but should check)
• It would be great to be able to automate the creating pages based on tags (I believe the idea of this was to be able to add a tag on the site, and not worry about whether someone had already created a landing page for that particular tag). We are guessing that there is a way to do this, but we have not done it before.