SoftwareDevelopeRx.com - GitHub Pages site - Jekyll

SoftwareDevelopeRx.com - GitHub Pages site - Jekyll

The following is a personal note, as mentioned in the article Writing for ‘Future of Me’

• Domain
• configuration to GitHub Pages site
• Jekyll as a static site generator
• setting the theme: minima
  • file _config.yml
  • folder: _layout
  • folder: _includes
• strategy:
  • Landing Page
    • for Homepage
    • per Topic / Category
  • Bilingual EN/ID

The website softwaredeveloperx.com is handled as follows:

• GitHub Pages connected to the Repo https://github.com/softwaredeveloperx9/softwaredeveloperx9.github.io
• using Jekyll {available at https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll or https://jekyllrb.com}
• entry point: _config.yml file
• theme: minima

Nice to have

• configure GitHub Pages to use Custom domain - softwaredeveloperx.com
  for Repo https://github.com/softwaredeveloperx9/softwaredeveloperx9.github.io
• CNAME file
• Jekyll configuration

Next step

• download the minima theme at https://github.com/jekyll/minima
• extract to the Root Folder
• configure the _config.yml file

Result after extracting the minima theme

Configuring GitHub Pages with Custom domain - softwaredeveloperx.com

Deploy

The deployment process can be seen here:

Summary: files added and changed

Files I added and/or modified:

• _config.yml
• index.md
• and several files across multiple Sub-Folders:

DO NOT: prefix _

Underscore _ in Jekyll = “this is a Jekyll system folder/file, not public content”.
All Jekyll internal folders use _:

_posts/      ← system
_layouts/    ← system
_includes/   ← system
_sass/       ← system
_drafts/     ← system

⚠️ Warning:

I once created a layout file called _new_post.html {fileName with _ prefix}, but it did not work {for the reason above}

Google Search

I had no intention at all of appearing in Google Search.
But in the context of a website, everyone manages to show up in Google Search.
Why couldn’t I?

Skill issue?

Let’s do that:

• add plugin jekyll-sitemap to _config.yml
  so that https://softwaredeveloperx.com/sitemap.xml is generated
• register to Google Search Console

Landing Page and Bilingual EN/ID

My idea was as follows:

• Landing Page
  • for Homepage
  • per Topic / Category
• Bilingual EN/ID

The combination produces:

• EN https://softwaredeveloperx.com/
• ID https://softwaredeveloperx.com/id/
• SharePoint topic EN https://softwaredeveloperx.com/sharepoint/
• SharePoint topic ID https://softwaredeveloperx.com/sharepoint-id/

How?

Looking at the image above:

• it starts from _config.yml
• then the folders: _layout and _includes
• and several files:
  • index.md
  • id.md
  • sharepoint.md
  • sharepoint-id.md
  • tulisan.md
  • contents.md
  • … {and other .md files}

Why Bilingual EN/ID? Isn’t AI enough?

I am fairly fluent in speaking and writing in Bahasa Indonesia.
My English?
not too good

I hope to start learning to write in English.
Even though in the very beginning, I requested AI to help me.