zebfross.com

This is how I created my personal website, using Nanoc. Nanoc is a convenient, command-line tool for generating static sites.

Download

Fork the project and then clone it with:

git clone git@github.com:[username]/zebfross-dot-com.git

Here is the directory structure

• config.yaml - configuration for the nanoc compiler
• content - all website content; html files are written in kramdown (markdown varient)
• layouts - the website layouts
• lib - ruby helper scripts
• README.md - this
• Rules - rules for how to compile the site content

Compile & Run

cd zebfross-dot-com
nanoc

The html pages will be compiled into zebfross-dot-com/output/. Everything in this folder should make a functioning website. Test it out with:

cd zebfross-dot-com
nanoc view &
wget localhost:3000

If everything worked, it should download the home page.

Upload

After modifying the website, it is easy to upload it to a web server. Start by modifying the config.yaml file. Under deploy, change this line:

dst: "zebfross@zebfross.com:~/public_html"

to

dst: "your_username@your_url.com:your_dir"

Then upload the files by running the following:

nanoc deploy --target public