The Aggie Brickyard

Welcome...this website is build using the Voyager jekyll theme (http://redvi.github.io/voyager).

For more info on the Features and Options, visit the voyager github repo.

Notes For Website Maintenance

To preview site locally use: bundle exec jekyll serve in terminal window (in folder where repo housed), then go to http://127.0.0.1:4000/

Photos:

• Keep photos compressed if possible, jpgs are fine. Can use imagemagick command such as:

convert -strip -interlace Plane -gaussian-blur 0.05 -quality 85% source.jpg outfile.jpg

PDFs

Optimizing Size

• Try export optimized PDFs, a relatively high quality version but at a much smaller size (~10 MB instead of ~100 MB). For most viewing on a computer, the difference in quality isn't worth the large load times.
• If using OSX, Preview has some ability to reduce the pdf size without sacrificing much in the way of quality. I added a quartz filter which reduces a pdf to 75% quality, a decent tradeoff in size vs clarity of pictures, graphics etc. It will take a ~130MB to about 15 MB.
  • To do so, grab the ReduceFileSize_75.qfilter file in the Dropbox folder under *final_pdfs
  • Save it to the ~/Library/Filters or Library/PDF Services folder
  • Open the PDF (high res version) with Preview, go to File > Export from Preview, select "Reduce File Size 75%"" under the Quartz filter drop down. 75% is not the overall reduction, rather how it is reduced.

Embedding PDFs

To Embed from Box, right click on the file, More Actions and Embed Widget. Click Custom, and select Embed Widget> Custom and select 600 width, and 775 height, copy the link and add to your markdown.

To embed from Dropbox, put a copy of the pdf in your Public folder and the Brickyard website already has an embedpdf.html script in the _includes folder for embedding from Dropbox. You simply right click on your file of interest in Dropbox, copy the end of the public link into the script and your done. See Fall 2016 for an example.

For Posts

Use layout: post in yaml.

---
layout: post
bg: 'background.jpg'
title: "Post Heading"
date: 2016-06-29
tags : ['front-end']
author: "Author"
categories: posts
---

For Pages

If page contains active tag, it will display as a tab on the site menu.

---
layout: page
title: "About"
permalink: /about/
active: about
---

Archive Page

The Archive page sorts posts by tags. No more than one tag in one post, e.g.:

Good:

tags : ['front-end']

Bad:

tags : ['front-end', 'jekyll']

Building demo of site:

Use the following to build a local preview of the website (this works on macosx):

• bundle exec jekyll serve
• Then visit the web address shown in the command line: i.e., http://127.0.0.1:4000/