Chapter 12
Adding a Blog
Now that we’ve polished up our site layout using flexbox (Chapter 11), the time has come to make a second Jekyll layout. This will take place within the context of adding blog capabilities to our sample website, thereby fulfilling the promise made in Section 9.3. Adding a blog to our site will give us a chance to apply many of the CSS rules we’ve covered so far, including fonts, margins, padding, selectors, and—you guessed it—flexbox.
Jekyll is a “blog-aware” framework, which means that right out of the box it is configured to understand how to read and process content to make blog-like sites. Unlike some other blogging platforms that you might be familiar with (Figure 12.1), with a Jekyll blog there is no content management ...
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