Create Beautiful, Performant Sites [Free eBook]

I had been exploring Jekyll for quite sometime. I simply followed the below traditional, developer like approach - download Ruby download Jekyll play around with platform capabilities - focus on Liquid see how themes are created However, I realised mid-way that select themes offer a good way for anyone to get started. Just copy themes to your own repository Edit content Go-live on github.io This information is available to anyone who is remotely interested, but the conversation on such sites were not as prevalent as they should be. ...

Create eBook from Multiple Markdown Files

I had been a fan of LeanPub. The platform promises easy book authoring using Markdown, and distribute the book to a hungry audience. However, I am not a big fan of how Markdown is processed in LeanPub. Markua, the flavor (created &) preferred by LeanPub, is not completely aligned to how GitHub and others process the Markdown. I encountered a few problems including images and could not do a lot of experimentation since LeanPub limits book previews / generation to 20 times a month in the free plan. ...