Epidemica website

Website of the Epidemica project by the Colubri Lab.

Based on the Jekyll lean startup template from Matti Schneider.

Local usage

• Install Jekyll

• Install all required dependencies: bundle install

• Start the server with the following options: bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --safe --strict_front_matter

• watch improves your developer experience: the server will reload automatically when it detects changes to files (except the config file, you’ll get bitten by that at some point).
• safe mirrors GitHub Pages' setup.
• strict_front_matter allows to catch errors early.

Change the menu

In order to avoid mixing content files with config & dev files, pages are never created at the root: they all get written in collections. In order to add a page to the menu, you can simply add it to _toplevel, as long as you set its URL with permalink. Prefix their filename with the index at which you'd like them to appear in the menu. The first one (by convention, index 0) will appear on the left handside of the menu, along with your website logo.

Publish to GitHub Pages

• Create a repository on GitHub.
• Push your content to it.
• Activate GitHub Pages in the settings.

Set up Continuous Integration

If you use CircleCI, just log in with GitHub and activate builds for your repository. They offer a free plan for open-source.