Jekyll

This site is built with github pages which is based on jekyll, a set of ruby modules (“gems”) for the creation of static websites and blogs from templates (liquid) and markdown/html files. When I first tried to build a site with github pages, I didn’t understand a lot of things and I finally decided to stop trying. The problem was that github pages involve a lot of programs I didn’t know very well (ruby, gems, yaml, liquid, sass). Moreover, most examples heavily use the latest versions of html5, css and javascript which are rather different from the ones I used in the past. I have finally taken the time to understand how all these “new” things where connected to each other and how github pages work. ...