The website for UCSB MAT 200C 2016: Geometric Computing for Virtual Environments

To view this site, go to wolftype.github.io/200c

This uses github's built-in support for jekyll, a static blog generator. To make one of your own such blogs you can follow the instructions here. Short hand is to:

1. Make a new repo on github.com and clone it.

    git clone https://my-user-name/myrepo.git
    cd myrepo
   

2. Make a branch called gh-pages

    git checkout -b gh-pages
   

3. Install ruby and bundler

    sudo gem install bundler
   

4. Make a Gemfile and add some stuff to it, namely:

    source 'https://rubygems.org'
    gem 'github-pages', group: :jekyll_plugins
   

5. Install the github jekyll plugins

    bundle install
   

6. Create new local jekyll site

    bundle exec jekyll new . --force
   

7. Add line to `_config.yml' that reads

    baseurl: "/myrepo"
   

8. Write posts to _posts folder, prepend href links with {{site.baseurl}}/

9. To preview your blog locally on your computer at localhost:4000/myrepo:

    bundle exec jekyll serve
   

10. Add, Commit, and Push changes

You can now view your static blog at my-user-name.github.io/myrepo. To add posts, add markdown (or html or optionally other with the right plug-in) files to the _posts folder with the name YEAR-MONTH-DAY-postname.md

Note you can also specify a folder in your master branch which github will use to publish to yourname.github.io/yourrepo. See this link for details.

For more info, see also jekyll's github documentation