Portfolio Website

This is the Portfolio Website of Jatin Rohilla.

Future Features

• Group projects by year to show code growth

Dev

• Make sure jekyll is installed and working on your system.
• clone the site and make changes as per your needs
• use jekyll serve to serve
• use jekyll build to build for production

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Development decisions

These decisions were made based on requirements.

• _posts are useless.
• custom collection projects has been used.
• _projects and projects both are useful and serve purpose. Trying to merge them is a bad idea. This came into existence because i wanted very specific URLs, pages and folder structure.
• The bootstrap readable css is around 125KB which is very huge. We could use purgecss, but github pages deployment won't do it for us. We could deploy to netifly or now but that defeats the purpose. The purpose is to keep it all simple and on github pages for now, because ultimately gatsby site is a better choice. Jekyll is quick to prototype and therefore it is used.
• Thus, to save space, bootstrap readable has been commented out.
• This means, any override to bootstrap must be in custom.css
• Some ununsed files are still kept, incase they come in handy in future
• disqus comments are supported. But because comments are rare, i put a manual button to load disqus comments if needed.

Common Operations

Changing common settings

• simply edit the _config.yml and jekyll serve again to see changes
• you need to create a disqus admin board for your site to enable comments

Adding a new Project

• make a markdown file in _projects with the project name`
• see existing files to know about the supported frontmatter.
• For using additional static assets in the file, make a folder with project name in projects/ and put the static files there. Then simpply use those files in markdown as if they were in that very directory. See existing files for demo.
• set comments frontmatter to true to enable comments
• use priority to reorder projects on the display page. Smaller the number higher the priority

Debug

• put {% debug %} anywhere
• because of the octopress debugger, we can then explore everything in command line

Theme

• This site uses the a minimal jekyll theme card.
• Further redesigning has been done to suit my needs for a Portfolio website.

License

• Feel free to use the theme.
• Content copyright belongs to this site's author.