Blog Instructions

Summary

During Sprints 2-5, you'll produce blog posts. Each sprint will have a cultural blog post, and most sprints will also have a technical blog post.

These are in your forked blog repository. The blog will be visible to the facilitators. Optionally, you can decide to deploy your blog - in this case your blog will be publicly available. You can also decide to share your blog posts, links (if deployed), or screenshots with your cohort classmates.

Blog Setup

In Sprint 1's Setup Repo & Create Blog Challenge you forked the blog repo blog and cloned it to your computer. Hopefully you cloned it to a sensible file directory, for example:

Example: Good

User/Kiri/Dev-Academy/blog
User/Kiri/Dev-Academy/foundations
User/Kiri/Dev-Academy/ko-wai-koe

Example: Incorrect - inside another repo

User/Kiri/Dev-Academy/foundations/blog

Steps

Refer to these instructions for creating a blog until you are familiar with it.

1. Navigate INTO blog/blog-posts directory
2. Create a file using the naming convention TOPIC-NAME.html.
3. Copy and paste the template
4. Link your css file <link href="main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> (if you have one)
5. Update the HTML elements e.g. title, headers etc.
6. Add your content
7. Stage, commit, push
8. Deploy (Optional) - Follow the instructions from GitHub Pages to deploy your blog online.View your blogs on your web browser, e.g. http://USERNAME.github.io/blog/blog-posts/learning-plan.html

If using GitHub Pages: It may take a few minutes for your changes to appear after pushing to GitHub, so don't panic if it's not there immediately!