diff --git a/posts/making-your-own-blog.md b/posts/making-your-own-blog.md index d5e16de..effb3ad 100644 --- a/posts/making-your-own-blog.md +++ b/posts/making-your-own-blog.md @@ -40,4 +40,37 @@ You can create your repo using a template (what I did) e.g Eleventy's base templ - Make sure ``Public`` is ticked, it should be by default - Keep ``Include all branches`` unticked (it's what I did, so some things may be different if you decide to tick it, I can't help with some things at that point) -GitHub will then generate your repo using the eleventy base blog template. There will be a list of files generated, an important one being ``README.md``. As the README states, you will need to ``Edit _data/metadata.json``. You will find this at ``https://github.com/your-github-name/your-repo-name/blob/master/_data/metadata.json``. But first, let's head over to [Netlify](https://app.netlify.com/signup). You can use your email or GitHub login (I'd recommend using GH as that is what I did). Once logged in go to , choose ``GitHub`` as the option for Continuous Deployment then select your repo you have created with the elventy template. Then click ``Deploy site``. Head to ``https://app.netlify.com/sites/user-name/settings/general#site-details`` +GitHub will then generate your repo using the eleventy base blog template. There will be a list of files generated, an important one being ``README.md``. As the README states, you will need to ``Edit _data/metadata.json``. You will find this at ``https://github.com/your-github-name/your-repo-name/blob/master/_data/metadata.json``. But first, make sure you commit your changes if you've made any and let's head over to [Netlify](https://app.netlify.com/signup). +You can use your email or GitHub login (I'd recommend using GH as that is what I did). Once logged in go to , choose ``GitHub`` as the option for Continuous Deployment then select your repo you have created with the elventy template. Then click ``Deploy site``. Head to ``https://app.netlify.com/sites/user-name/settings/general#site-details``. For now Netlify provides you with its own subdomain at ``subdomain.netlify.app`` but you can change it by presssing ``Change site name``. +Back to GitHub, remember `metadata.json`? You'll need to fill that in now to customise the template to match you. +``` +{ + "title": "Blog title", + "url": "https://subdomain-you-chose.netlify.app/", + "language": "en", + "description": "add a description here", + "feed": { + "subtitle": "add a subtitle here", + "filename": "feed.xml", + "path": "/feed/feed.xml", + "id": "https://subdomain-you-chose.netlify.app/" + }, + "jsonfeed": { + "path": "/feed/feed.json", + "url": "https://subdomain-you-chose.netlify.app/feed/feed.json" + }, + "author": { + "name": "your-name", + "email": "your-email, + "url": "hhtps://subdomain-you-chose.netlify.app/about-me/" + } +} +``` + +Make sure to commit your changes and then netlify should automatically rebuild your site. It shouldn't take more than a minute to do so. +You can add an about me page by editing ``/about/index.md``. Leave the stuff surrounded by. +``` +'``` + +```' +```