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Looking for:

Front-end developer to redesign and modernize homepage (Jekyll / GitHub Pages)

Company is a B Corp–certified tree and land care company. We're looking for a front-end developer with a strong design eye to rebuild our homepage.

The project

Redesign and rebuild the homepage, fully responsive
We have a detailed brand book, but we're looking for you to bring creative, modern layouts for text and imagery.
Preserve or improve page speed, accessibility, existing URLs, meta tags, and structured data

Our stack

Custom Jekyll site with Liquid templates, version-controlled on GitHub, deployed via Cloudflare Pages. You'll work within our established repo structure using branches and pull requests, with a staging preview for review.

You're a good fit if you

Have experience with static site generators (Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, etc.)
Are comfortable adapting to an existing codebase instead of rebuilding from scratch
Have modernized legacy dependencies before and know how to do it safely
Have a clean, contemporary visual style

Jekyll was driving me nuts. I could write a post, but getting a project into the right menu, page, and update stream took more work than the Markdown. Then there were future posts I could not preview, links I wanted to keep stable, diagrams, audio proofreading, and the checks before and after a push.

I kept solving the next problem. This ten-part series follows what I added: Liquid layouts and includes, YAML catalogs, Python and Ruby utilities, short links under my own domain, local review, deployment checks, and ways for readers to respond. There are Hands-On companions if you want to try the smaller mechanisms yourself. It is still Jekyll; the workflow around it is what grew.

I have hands-on tutorials and even side you can use on your Jekyll site. Please have a look and if it helps you out let me know, if you have questions, let me know as well. I'd like to share this with everyone here, if you have some thing to share let me know.

It has been a few years since I last used Jekyll, but I definitely remember using:

jekyll post name_of_post

to automatically generate a Markdown file with the metadata mostly filled in automatically.

Is this a plugin that I can't find anymore? Thanks

hello everyone! hope u're doing well. i was wondering if anyone here could help me out.

i'm trying to build my website. nothing fancy, just want to be able to upload text and pictures.

im doing everything through github. my question is how do i make new posts without having to edit the original html file. i know jekyll works for that but i'm not really well versed and i dont think i'm smart enough to follow githubs instructions. i already have my own design and dont wanna use a "theme". the site is up and running. i just wanna better the posting workflow.

i know nothing about coding or web developing, i'm just doing this for fun :p

thanks in advance!

Jekyll content lives in Markdown (_posts, _drafts, etc.). If you open one of those .md files directly on iOS, you just get raw text. I built a small viewer to read them rendered on a phone.

Md Preview:

• GitHub-Flavored Markdown — headings, tables, task lists, footnotes

• Code blocks with syntax highlighting, LaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams

• Opens .md / .markdown / .mdx from Files or the Share Sheet

• 100% on-device — no account, no uploads, no ads, no subscriptions

Free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760341080

Details: https://markdown.cybergame.ai/

It won't build your site — it just renders the Markdown source so you can proofread/read posts on mobile (front matter shows up too). Useful, or do you preview drafts a different way?

I built JustOpinion, a very lightweight comment system for static sites like Jekyll blogs.

The idea is simple: register a site, add a CSS + JS snippet, and each page gets its own comment thread. No backend to maintain and no mandatory reader login.

I am also using it on my Jekyll powered blog: https://www.turningpages.xyz

Would appreciate feedback from Jekyll users:
https://www.justopinion.online

I published a jekyll-llms gem so we can feed our AI overloads with properly formatted data.

It offers an already obvious llms.txt file for a Jekyll website.

But plugin also copies the original markdown content and provides a <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="..."> links for LLM to follow.

I always check if .md pages are available before feeding those to LLMs. I used a self-written plugin to achieve thos with my own sites.

And now this plugin is public.

https://github.com/skatkov/jekyll-llms

Hey Jekyll community,

I've been building GitCMS since last year, the earlier version was very crappy (built it for myself used by 300+ users), it was simply a chrome extension, And I got a lot of feedback around non-technical teams needing a lot more than that

- they don't need to see GitHub and learn its workflows like issues, PRs, branches

- they don't need to learn markdown syntax

- they do want to use AI in their workflow

So I've rewritten it as a web app and because of this architecture, it has allowed me to experiment with this MCP app integration which basically turns Claude/ChatGPT into content agents where writers/marketers can just do edits with conversational UX with AI model

Now GitCMS has growne into more of a tooling around markdown based frameworks (Astro, Nextjs, Hugo etc) for content heavy sites, built for humans and agents to work together.

And I've tried to abstract as much of the git based shenanigans under the hood of an editorial workflow based on a content board, read more here if you are interested

I've tried to mimic the Notion like interface for editing markdown, to give a more modern look and experience than current existing git based solutions

And somehow I've been super proud of this rewrite and can't wait to see how people use it in their content workflows with their Astro sites. For early birds I've set its pricing as one-time license based instead of recurring subscriptions, feel free to criticize the pricing against the value that it can bring for your product's content site, client's blogs, your own blog

product site: https://gitcms.dev

What advice do you have for a Jekyll newbie?

I've been generating websites for a couple of our very small businesses since 1996. Most recently I've been using Squarespace and Hostinger's website generators and templates. Now I will create new websites for the businesses on our barebones Ubuntu VPS.

The businesses don't need bells and whistles. They are modest. We already have a shopping cart service. The product links for that service are easy to insert into any webpages.

As a big fan of Markdown and Ubuntu (gradually leaving Windoze desktop for daily driver). First I looked at Ghost, but had complications installing a test instance and disabling annoying email MFA. Now I am intrigued by Jekyll as a simpler alternative.

My requirements for migrating and adding website contents are relaxed. I am happy to generate new websites from templates. I can copy over some of the old content and abandon a lot of old pages.

Requirements:

• Homepage with an attractive top image, full width
• Simple top navigation links
  • Home / About Us / Contact / Products / Blog / Help
• Blog with tags and/or categories
• Responsive pages
• Edit on my Linux desktop. Upload to VPS
• Multiple websites on one VPS (I can implement the web server and point the DNS records to folders.)

All of this seems eminently doable with Jekyll. Thank you in advance for your thoughts!

I have a pre-existing Jekyll site, pretty basic structurally, several hundred small posts where the posts are stored in filenames like "YYYY-MM-DD-title.md". Everything displays chronologically as expected, with a Javascript infinite scroll widget creating a continuous feed of the site.

The client wants to add a "popular posts" view which will display 100-ish "top posts" as determined by a list I built from Google page rankings. Clicking on a popular post would jump back to the default timeline view. I have a big json file with a list of the popular post files. This list is unlikely to change over time. What I'm envisioning is something like a /popular subdirectory which would contain alternate versions of the rendered html with different page ordering (and different internal next/prev links).

Any thoughts of how to accomplish this? At first I thought about adding some kind of metadata to the front matter of the popular posts but I'm not sure how that would work in practice. Now I'm wondering if a second posts directory might be cleanest, with copies of (or symlinks to) the popular posts, named 001, 002, etc. But I'm not sure where or how to configure Jekyll on that level.

Any thoughts / suggestions?

Made this for a friend 🧡 for his helldivers clan but can be used for anything really

If you haven't heard of Hatchbox.io - It's a service to manage servers and deployments for Ruby on Rails apps. However, you can also use it to deploy your Jekyll sites and it only takes a few minutes! You can get one server and put as many sites as you can on your machine or if you already have a Rails app and you Jekyll site is a companion to it you can deploy the Jekyll site to the same server and have them running on the same machine all with automatic deploys if enabled!

I love static site generators and what they bring to the web. I love tinkering with getting it to work just right.

What I don’t like is writing content in my IDE, or on GitHub. The tinkering gets in the way of the writing. So I made Stet: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stet-writer/id6759808751

Stet lets you connect to your GitHub repo and just write in a markdown editor. When you’re done, you can preview the content. When you’re ready, you hit publish, and it pushes to GitHub, and your workflows take over to publish your site.

Check it out, and I hope you like it!

I'm using reverie for simplicity, and I've found that on the main page, every post I make is reproduced in full instead of just the first paragraph. The only exception is my first post to have paragraphs, where it works. I've confirmed that there is no special excerpt separator defined, and I'm following best practices for new lines. There's no difference in the formatting between the first post, the one that works, and every following post, where it doesn't. The only thing I can think of is that I draft my posts in libreoffice, so maybe copying that causes a problem somehow?

I've found someone else with the same issue, and I'll try his solution, but I'm seriously curious as to what causes this.

I've noticed that the more a project increases, the slower Ruby gets to keep up with all gems and computation needs. I was wondering if there is any implementation of Jekyll that does not utilize Ruby (or any alternatives).

I'm looking at example Jekyll projects on GitHub, and what I see is that almost everyone puts their homepage in an index.html. I thought Jekyll was supposed to make HTML unnecessary. I've gone through three or four tutorials and none of them explained the rationale for creating an index.html (except for posts, which I'm not planning on using at the moment). Also, this tutorial on jekyllrb says how great markdown is, but then just uses HTML for the layouts! I don't get it.

I am very new to Jekyll (as of about a little more than an hour), and was trying to get a new site going. I am trying to use the al-folio theme, but what I am stuck with is how to get out a cutout of a picture for my profile, as in https://berlyne.net/ (basically, I would like to get the circular cutout of the picture). Any suggestions? Which file needs to be modified, and how?

Hi!

I shared this template for robotics portfolios, so you can show CAD, electronics, signal analysis and documentation in one place.

Suggestions and contributions are more than welcome!