It's great that Gistlog makes it easy to write Gist-powered, Markdown-formatted, blog posts. But what if you want to use it as your entire blogging platform? We're working on it, and here's a first step: user landing pages.
Any Github user that has any public gists that contain a file named gistlog.yml now have a landing page on Gistlog at http://gistlog.co/your-user-name. So, since I have (more than) one, you can view my landing page at gistlog.co/mattstauffer. It's very simple right now, but we have a ton of ideas to improve it over time. So go check it out.
How do you get your own Gistlog landing page?
- Create a new Gistlog Gist (or edit an old one)
- Create two files: one for the markdown (I recommend
blog.mdfor the name) and one for the Gistlog settings (which must be namedgistlog.yml) - Write your blog post in
blog.md - Since there are no actual settings being parsed from
gistlog.ymlyet, just create it with the following in it:published: true - Save it as public.
That's it!
Check out the source of this post to see it in action.
Love the landing pages. Any plans to style them differently or need anyone to jump on that? Would love to help out with it.