New post. Some style changes.

Poita · Jan 22, 2012 · 1fa1c82 · 1fa1c82
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diff --git a/_layouts/post.html b/_layouts/post.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
 {{ content }}
 
 <div id="related">
-    {% if site.related_posts.length > 0 %}
+    {% if site.related_posts.length != 0 %}
         <h2>Related Posts</h2>
     {% endif %}
     {% for post in site.related_posts limit:3 %}

diff --git a/_posts/2012-01-22-homepage-2.0.md b/_posts/2012-01-22-homepage-2.0.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ This time, I've gone for simplicity. I got sick of the incredible bloat
 of Joomla and all its features that were unnecessary for what I wanted
 to achieve: an essentially static website that I can easily configure.
 
-This time, I've gone with [Tom Preston-Werner][1]'s excellent [jekyll][2]
+This time, I've gone with [Tom Preston-Werner][1]'s excellent [Jekyll][2]
 static site generator. I just write my posts in Markdown, run jekyll, and
 it generates all the HTML for me. I have full control over the layout of
 the site, and everything is there in plain text.

diff --git a/_posts/2012-01-22-simplicity-in-everything.md b/_posts/2012-01-22-simplicity-in-everything.md
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: Simplicity in Everything
+tags:
+- meta
+- jekyll
+- process
+---
+This website is now created using Jekyll. Originally, I had used Joomla,
+a big, industrial-strength content management system.
+
+Joomla worked well for a while, but I quickly reached a point where I
+found myself unable to do, what should have been, simple things. For
+example, I couldn't see any obvious way of extracting all the text from
+my posts -- it was stored in a database somewhere. There was no simple
+way to test changes to my site locally because I couldn't see how
+everything pieced together. It was just too complex for something that
+should have been very simple.
+
+So I got thinking about what would be the simplest way to generate my
+website.
+
+Well, what is my website? It's just a collection of pages with the same
+layout, but with different blobs of text inserted in the middle for each
+post. I'd also like to generate some lists: recent posts, related posts,
+that kind of thing.
+
+Ideally, what I want is something that transforms this
+
+{% highlight html %}
+    <body>
+    <h1>{{ "{{ page.title "}}}}</h1>
+    {{ "{{ page.content "}}}}
+    </body>
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+into this
+
+{% highlight html %}
+    <body>
+    <h1>Simplicity in Everything</h1>
+    <p>This website is now created using Jekyll...</p>
+    ...
+    </body>
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+That's *exactly* what Jekyll does. It just goes through all your pages
+and uses [Liquid][1] to transform them into a static site. Don't believe me?
+The entire source for this site is [on GitHub][2].
+
+To test my website locally, I just run `jekyll --server` and head on
+over to `http://0.0.0.0:4000`. To deploy, I just run `jekyll && rsync
+...`, which generates the site and copies it over to my remote server.
+That's it.
+
+Why can't everything be this simple?
+
+[1]: http://liquidmarkup.org/
+[2]: https://github.com/Poita/poita.org
+
+
diff --git a/style.css b/style.css
@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@ h2 {
     padding: 16px 8px 8px 0;;
     margin: 0;
 }
-tt {
-	font-family: courier new, courier;
-	font-weight: bold;
-	font-size: 10pt;
-}
 ul {
 	padding-left: 0px;
 	list-style-position: outside;
@@ -99,4 +94,4 @@ blockquote {
 .highlight .s { color: #C00; }
 .highlight .mi { color: #C09; }
 .highlight .mf { color: #C09; }
-
+.highlight .nt { color: #00C; }