More information and other tools

Markdown resources

• markdown.org’s Markdown Guide
• markdownguide.org’s Basic Syntax Guide
• Markdown Emoji cheat sheet
• Adam Pritchard’s Markdown Cheatsheet
• Daring Fireball’s Markdown Introduction

More about Jekyll

From jekyllrb.com:

“Jekyll is a static site generator. You give it text written in your favorite markup language and it uses layouts to create a static website. You can tweak how you want the site URLs to look, what data gets displayed on the site, and more.”

• GitHub pages uses jekyll to turn your markdown files (hosted in your GitHub repo) into HTML files and presents them on your desired website.
• Jekyll web page and Jekyll project on GitHub.

Learn about git and GitHub Desktop

If you’re interested in learning more about how you can do version control in your local folders and connect them to GitHub repositories see:

• This intro to Git and GitHub tutorial from UBC Library Research Commons.
• This intro to GitHub Desktop tutorial from GitHub.

More about version control with git

• Official git documentation page
• The Smart Ways to Correct Mistakes in Git

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