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 published on your http://USERNAME.github.io/ page. They are visible to your cohort and anyone else you share the link with. Your engagement with the blog questions and content each sprint counts toward your Foundations assessments.

Blog Setup

In Sprint 1's Setup Repo & Create Blog Challenge you created the new repo YOUR-USERNAME.github.io and cloned it to your computer. Hopefully you cloned it to a sensible file directory, for example:

Example: Good 

User/Kiri/Dev-Academy/kiri.github.io
User/Kiri/Dev-Academy/foundations
User/Kiri/Dev-Academy/ko-wai-koe

Example: Incorrect - inside another repo 

User/Kiri/Dev-Academy/foundations/kiri.github.io

Steps

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

  1. Navigate INTO USERNAME.github.io/blog 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. View your blogs on your web browser, e.g. http://USERNAME.github.io/blog/learning-plan.html

It may take some time between pushing your work to Github and Github, making it viewable, so don't panic if it's not there immediately!

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