Installing the Software

Once you have installed the required software and downloaded the repository, you should be able to now get this site running on your local machine. First change to the msupelican directory and run the following commands:

make html

make serve

If the above doesn't work it probably means you don't …

Running Pelican creates an docs folder with your static website. The next step is to take the contents of this folder and put it in a git repostiory named user.github.io where user is your github user name. That should be it.

1. First you need a github account. You …

Now that you have a website it is time to make it your own. First thing you can do is edit the pelican.conf file. This file is used to set some variables related to your website. Read through the file and change what you think is appropriate Specifically change …

You will probably be using markdown files to write your blogs. They are nice because they give you more freedom than simple text files, and are easier to work with than HTML files. However, you can still use raw HTML in your files and it'll work pretty well, which is …

Github Pages allows you to make unlimited websites linked to other repository projects.

For example, you have your main website user.github.io

If you have a separate github repository projectrepo, you can make a project column by going to the 'Projects' header and creating a new column. It can …

This is a sample post: you can post anything you want, e.g. for a blog, research paper, or general news update.

Here's a sample picture of Lake Michigan:

This file is located at msupelican/content/Blog/firstpost.md and is written as a markdown file.

You probably will want …

Google Analytics allows you to track the traffic on your website.

1 . First, create a Disqus account here 2. Once you have a Disqus account create a "new site" and point it to your github.io website. Remember the site name you used. 3. Open up the pelican.conf file …

Even though pelican generates static websites you can still have dynamic comments using a third party service called Disqus.

1. First, create a Disqus account here
2. Once you have a Disqus account create a "new site" and point it to your github.io website. Remember the site name you used.
3. Open …

Your blog can be used to automatically feed information into social media sites such as Twitter and facebook. This post will show you how to connect your github.io site to dlvrit.com, a service which can read your blog and post entries into your social media outlets.

1. Create an …