- Jekyll and Git
In writing my previous blog post I became bothered at how long it took me to update all the links in the nav. Not only did I have to write the blog post and update the navigation on that page, I also had to update the navigation on all other blog posts (6+ posts). To combat this I created a seperate branch from the main branch in git. This is the "jekyll-template" branch where jekyll was set up and used. Jekyll is a static templating package that allows the user to recreate a static page from a template that can be repeated multiple times. This is great for my blog posting as the template will include the navigation and all other information that is the same across all the blog posts (such as the useful links section). This means I only have to update the single navigation page when writing a new blog post and there is much less copy and pasting occuring. In the coming days I will merge the main and jekyll-template branches together. For anyone interested in how I got jekyll established on my personal blog they can read the README.md file in this repository.
Git
I improved on my skills using git this week as I managed to create a new branch using git and then add this to my online github repository as well. I've learnt how to check the different branches that currently exist using the
git branchcode .