November CSS Meetup - Build a portfolio site with Jekyll

Let's get together & chat about css, the web & everything in between. With big thanks to our sponsors Credenza (https://www.credenza.nz/) for hosting us, and Raygun (https://raygun.com/) & Xequals (http://www.xequals.co.nz/) for snacks & drinks

Doors open from 6pm and we'll get started about 6.15pm once everyone's arrived and settled in.

Regular topics
• CSS web picks & news - comment with the link if you have any interesting articles to share
• Website showcase - sites we love, hate, sites we're building
• Job board - who's hiring & who's looking

Build a portfolio site with Jekyll

This month we'll be hosting a workshop on how to use Jekyll, a static site generator, to build a simple portfolio site.
Read more about Jekyll here: https://jekyllrb.com/

The first half of the evening will be an intro to Jekyll and why we think it's a really cool tool to build simple sites quickly. The second half of the evening we'll get down to it and help each other setup our own sites and customise the templates and css to create something neat, so BYOD and get involved.

Jekyll is a Ruby Gem, so you'll need to have a Ruby environment setup on your machine. Don't worry if this is brand new to you, we'll be on-hand to help. Tutorials to setup your environment here: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/