strathseds.org

This is the site for StrathSEDS. New layouts and designs are tested here before being deployed on the main site.

It uses bootstrap, jekyll, ruby, and liquid

Requirements

Development time dependencies:

• Ruby
• Gems
• Jekyll
• Rdiscount (optional - comment out in _confing.yaml to use Maroku)
• Node.js & Grunt.js (optional - only if you wish to use GruntJS)

Run-time dependencies:

• A web server (any will do)

Complete Idiot's Guide

To use this template:

1. Clone to some directory

• Modify _config.yaml with your name, blog title, description and etc...
• Tweak HTML files in _layouts to personalize.
• Create blog entries in _posts/ - work off the sample posts there
• Run jekyll --server to generate site locally
• View it by going to http://localhost:4000 and make sure it looks good
• If all is well, upload contents of _site to your server
• Repeat steps 4-7 to update blog

Features

Following features are available:

• Automatically generate a valid RSS feed (see feed.xml in root directory).
• Automatically generate a valid Google Sitemap (see sitemap.xml in root directory).
• Automatically generate a .htaccess file with error 404 & 500 support
• Automatically generate committee list using a dataset

Credits

Based off of Bootstrap

All other content, edits & code are by StrathSEDS Web team

Licence

Please see the terms page