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{% include JB/setup %}

This is based on Jekyll Bootstrap but customized for use as a class web page.

Read Jekyll Quick Start

Complete usage and documentation available at: Jekyll Bootstrap

jb-class updates

This has been updated to Bootstrap 3.

Update Author Attributes

In _config.yml remember to specify your own data:

title : My Blog =)

author :
  name : Name Lastname
  email : blah@email.test
  github : username
  twitter : username

The theme should reference these variables whenever needed.

In addition, I've added a profs and instructors field that can be used as shown in the next section. The sample instructor info is as follows:

profs : prof1
instructors :
  prof1 :
    name : Some Guy
    email : sguy@myu.edu
    room : 1234
    hours : MW 8-10
    web : http://sguy.github.io

The profs field should be a comma separated list of the instructors if there are more than one for the course.

Sample Instructor Information

{% for profid in site.profs %} {% assign prof = site.instructors[profid] %}

{{ prof.name }}

{% if prof.email %}
• Email: {{ prof.email }}
{% endif %} {% if prof.room %}
• Room: {{ prof.room }}
{% endif %} {% if prof.hours %}
• Hours: {{ prof.hours }}
{% endif %} {% if prof.web %}
• Website
{% endif %}

{% endfor %}

Custom Navbars

I've included a few custom navbar color styles in assets/themes/twitter/css/custom-nav.css that you can select in _includes/themes/twitter/default.html. Search for the following line:

    <header class="navbar navbar-inverse teal-nav" role="banner">

and replace teal-nav with another color in the custom-nav.css file. If you want to use the bootstrap 3 default color for instance, you can switch it to say purple-nav.

Deploy to custom web space

In _config.yml you should set BASE_PATH to the path to the root directory where you intend to deploy your site. For example, the setting might be:

  BASE_PATH : /~sguy/jb-class

When you want to build to deploy, run jekyll build --safe and then copy the contents of the _site directory to the web server at the location shown by BASE_PATH. If you want to test locally, you can run jekyll serve -w like normal, and the BASE_PATH will function as if it were set to /.

Sample Posts

This blog contains sample posts which help stage pages and blog data. When you don't need the samples anymore just delete the _posts/core-samples folder.

$ rm -rf _posts/core-samples

Here's a sample "posts list".

{% for post in site.posts %}
• {{ post.date | date_to_string }} » {{ post.title }}
{% endfor %}

If you want to remove the blog features and pages from the navbar, it's as simple as deleting the following lines from _includes/themes/twitter/default.html:

  <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
    <li class="dropdown">
      <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Misc<b class="caret"></b></a>
      <ul class="dropdown-menu">
        {{ "{% assign pages_list = site.pages " }}%}
        {{ "{% assign group = 'misc' " }}%}
        {{ "{% include JB/pages_list " }}%}
      </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>

To-Do

• Improve syllabus/schedule templates