This Site

15 August 2021

A custom Bootstrap design, built with Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages.

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I wanted a simple personal site that I could use to showcase projects and occasional posts. GitHub Pages fills this remit perfectly:

• It supports Jekyll, allowing for a static site to be generated from templates and regenerated on any changes. Posts and pages can be added with simple Markdown files, instead of writing the entire HTML markup each time.
• It supports a nice and short custom domain.
• It’s really fast and responsive - partly due to the servers being fast, but as a static site, there’s no processing each time a page is requested.

It’s my first time using the Liquid template language. I have been used to using the Thymeleaf template language with Spring (Java), and there are significant differences between the two (e.g. Liquid uses curly brace syntax on the page, while Thymeleaf mostly uses element attributes.) Yet, it has been easy to learn quickly, and seems very flexible.