I am developing a blog using Jekyll. I've been reading over the documentation, however I realized that I haven't seen anything about followers. Does Jekyll offer an option for people to follow a blog, as well as a means to keep track of followers?
Thanks for your help!
You would have to extend the functionality of Jekyll with a custom plugin to build followers with the site. You can use social media to promote and build followers. Jekyll is just a static site/blog generator.
I would look at adding a plugin like addthis for social, etc. This will allow your users to promote content on the various social platforms.
"Does Jekyll offer an option for people to follow a blog, as well as a means to keep track of followers?"
The answer to that question is NO.
You can build your own plugin, but having a dynamic (user influenced) number on your website does not fit the concept of a static site (and is therefore not part of Jekyll).
A RSS feed that uses server metrics (log files) to measure the amount of readers, however, fits the Jekyll concept perfectly. A mailing list, like Brandon suggests, is also a very good solution. Adding spyware through AddThis works too, but that would be my very last resort. However, these are not solutions 'Jekyll offers'. Therefore, the answer remains 'no'.
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I'm developing an encyclopedia-type site, of sorts. Essentially the site contains pages for words, definitions, concepts, and blog posts, and I intend to add a new page/post every week or so. I currently have about 40 HTML pages for each post. Previously I had been publishing a repository of the site to Github Pages, but recently I made the decision to host my website through Netlify. So far, I've enjoyed Netlify's features and it has improved my development process pretty well.
However, my website remains static. To be clear, I haven't created the site's files with a static site generator such as Next.js or Jekyll. I wanted the project to be a practice for hard-coding. The only files in the directory currently are HTML, CSS, and JS files (along with git attributes and things like icons and fonts) I've looked through Netlify's web applications and functions sections, however, nothing that I've found really hits the mark, whether it's because I'm a new user to Netlify, or because I don't necessarily have much experience in site indexing and/or back-end applications.
My question is, how can I implement a search bar and a title search functionality to the homepage of my static site? This would be for the process of viewers to easily find any specific post of mine once visiting. I would want the search bar to ONLY search the title of each html file (at least for now) in a designated folder I have for posts. Additional questions would be which, if any, web apps should I use to accomplish this, and should I consider changing the process of which I develop and host the site to accommodate for these?
Look at Lunr.js / ElasticLunr.js. Both allow you to create an index as a file and provide Javascript access that can be embedded in your page.
I'm currently working through that process now.
I think as you are not using database you can't have search functionality within the application. but you can google search within your website.
Check this out.
https://cse.google.com/cse/
By "dynamic links", I mean a list of links that will constantly be updated.
To illustrate my question, I have a website that I am constantly writing new articles for. I currently have about 10 articles. If someone is to read article #5, there is a list of links to all 10 articles in the right panel of the page. As I update the site, and article #1 becomes out of date, I'd like to replace article #1 with article #11. Rather than updating the links within every article (so 10 times), is there a way to update the links once and have them all update simultaneously to every page?? Could I create an iframe for this??
Thanks for any and all help!
What's your goal? Do you want to learn to be a web developer? Or are you mostly concerned with getting your articles published?
If you want to be a web developer, I'd recommend steering clear of large CMS system like Wordpress or Drupal. Those are great products. But you want to learn the basics first. I think starting a PHP tutorial is the way to go.
If you just want to publish your articles, I'd recommend you find a nice place to create a blog. There are so many to choose from. It all depends on how much you want to spend.
Feel free to ask follow up questions. Web development sounds simple. But it's really a complex topic. I can't imagine what is must be like starting out these days with so many choices and competing technologies.
One way to do it would be to use Server-side includes. (Wikipedia) They work like this:
<!--#include file="some-content.html" -->
or
<!--#include virtual="some-folder/some-content.html" -->
The difference is file="" finds a file relative to the current page, whereas virtual="" finds it from the domain root. Either way, this method can use any type of regular text file as a source. The actual addition of the content is done by the server (hence the name) so its contents will be parsed as regular HTML and all CSS will apply to it as if the file were part of your page. I don't know about compatibility with different hosts, but if your web server supports it, this is probably the easiest way to go.
I am looking for a blogging platform that has built in tools for programming-related content. For example, I've seen blogs that have line-numbers, color-coded line separation, code-formatting and tool tips for copying and pasting code-samples. Some of these are better than others. (I'm sure I'm not the only one here who gets annoyed by blog entries with posted source that you can't copy without also copying all the line numbers). So, my question is what blogging-platform does the community recommend for a developer-oriented blog?
er...none that i know of. at the moment, you have to get the bits and pieces together. for my own blog (Blogger, so i'm limited in addons), i use Highlight code converter to generate the display HTML/inline CSS, clean it up a bit (the default settings assume you're creating an entire web page from the code) by removing unnecessary markup, then using it in my blog posts.
Wordpress has the code highligthing feature using some addins, if you are going to host it yourself it will be a very good option to use Wordpress.
BlogDown is a static blogging platform, so it can be hosted on GitHub. You can write posts with markdown files, which has great support for code snippets. You can write your own themes and modules for it also. Unlike Jekkyl, BlogDown does not have a compilations step. You just swap out the markdown files, and you're good to go. It's also worth noting that BlogDown supports custom renderers.
I'm looking at things that can distinguish a blog from a normal website. These are things that a program needs to be able identify from the html of a website or particular features that a site supports. For eg. pings. The same for news websites.
I'm working on a blog/news monitor program and it will index sites to automatically determine if it is a blog or a news site and then monitor user feedback in comments etc on posts from sites that it determines to be of a blog or news nature.
So what i'm really after is suggestions on what i can use or look out for in identifying these sites.
It's going to be a desktop app written in java so if you have any code specifics in java that'll be great.
thanks in advance
You can search the page for the word "blog", as this will probably be present. Specifically, you can look for it in parts of the HTML page, or exclude parts - like links. This will give you a decent starting point.
Ultimately, though, this is something that will have to be done manually. You should construct an interface for people to specify if it's a blog or news site, or different features of it, when the site is submitted. Then you should create a database of sites and features, and flag them so that you or another administrator can review them and make changes. Once you do this for a site, you'll never need to do it again, so for example http://*.wordpress.com/ is all going to be blogs.
Some features you can automatically detect or get a pretty good chance of detecting, but ultimately you will need a manual review.
Look for a discoverable RSS or Atom feed, which should be present on a blog or serially-updated news site.
My company (an engineering firm) is looking to redesign their website with some dynamic content. We have a nice portfolio of projects that we'd like to present on our site by category.
To elaborate, I'd like to have a "Projects Category" menu, where you can choose a sub-project category (such as churches, schools, etc) which links to a page with images of all projects which have been tagged with that category attribute. Clicking on an image would then take you to a detailed page for that project.
I have done a good bit of asp and jsp page development, but I've always worked on the front end in an enterprise environment - I've never built a production site from the back end. The advice I've gotten so far is that a full-blown CMS solution would be somewhat overkill, as we won't have a large hit count, and we'll be displaying a few hundred projects at most.
One big-picture choice I appear to have - whether to dynamically generate the pages (with asp or jsp) or to use a tool to generate a set of static html pages. The tool would build the menus, project summary pages, and individual project pages based on a set of data I could provide (in the form of a database or text file.)
I'm leaning towards trying to use a tool like webgen or webby to statically generate the site due to our current web hosting situation. Any thoughts on which approach is more appropriate? Is webgen or webby capable of doing what I am trying to do? Or can anyone recommend other web authoring tools better equipped to accomplish this?
Thanks for any feedback!
You could always use Template Toolkit :)
Jekyll may be worth a look.
Refer: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/wiki/
I've been told that webgen can't do what I'm trying to do (without some manual coding extensions myself) but that nanoc can.
http://nanoc.stoneship.org/