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A couple of Windows users who have contacted me have been unsuccessful in installing Jekyll on Windows, so beware. See this page in Jekyllrb help for details about installing and running Jekyll on a Windows machine. Jekyll isn’t officially supported on Windows, and since I’m on a Mac, I haven’t tried using Jekyll on Windows. You upload your files to a version control system such as Git. But you can use any Markdown editor you want (e.g., Lightpaper for Mac, Marked) to author your content. I recommend using WebStorm as your text editor.Īs noted in the previous point, I use WebStorm to author content, because I like working in text file formats. Don’t worry – this is part of the simplicy that makes Jekyll awesome. You work with text files and preview the site dynamically in your browser. Unlike with WordPress, you don’t log into an interface and navigate to your files. I wanted to keep the project files simple. If you want a post version of the site, you can clone my blog theme, which is highly similar in that it’s based on Bootstrap, but it uses posts to drive most of the features. I may integrate in post features in the future, but the theme really wasn’t designed with posts in mind. The community for your Jekyll site isn’t so much other tech writers (as is the case with DITA) but rather the wider web development community. Jekyll is built on the modern web development stack rather than the XML stack (XSLT, XPath, XQuery).

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If you have a UX team, they can really skin and design the site using all the tools familiar to the modern designer – JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, jQuery, and more. You can skin your Jekyll site to look identical to pretty much any other site online. Just specify a different config file for each unique build. Jekyll actually does all of this quite well. You can assemble your Jekyll site with various configurations, variants, and more. Maybe you have 7 different versions of your product, and 3 different locations. This term can mean a number of things, but let’s say you have 10 different sites you want to generate from the same source. All of the building is done on your own machine, and you then push the static HTML files onto a server. You don’t need a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) architecture to get your site running. It really depends on how many for loops you have iterating through the pages. Note that when your project has thousands of pages, the build time will be longer (maybe 1 minute per thousand pages?). You can choose what you display at first, second, third, fourth, and more levels, etc. It’s up to you to determine how you will design the information architecture for your thousands of pages.

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(You don’t need a CMS.) Because you’re working with text file formats, you can use any version control software (Git, Mercurial, Perforce, Bitbucket, etc.) as a CMS for your files. You collaborate with Jekyll projects the same way that developers collaborate with software projects. You basically set up a page that uses Liquid logic to get all the pages you want, and then you use PrinceXML (not part of Jekyll) to convert that page into a PDF.

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This theme uses Prince XML (costs $495) to do the PDF conversion task. You can generate PDFs from your Jekyll site. Then create a new project for that language and insert the translated pages. Here’s the basic approach: Export the pages and send them to a translation agency. I haven’t done a translation project yet (just a pilot test). Where HTML falls short, you use Liquid, which is a scripting that allows you to incorporate more advanced logic. Where Markdown falls short, you can use HTML. This is a wiki-like syntax for HTML that you can probably pick up in 10 minutes. You can author content using Markdown syntax. In DITA speak, this includes conref and keyref. You can re-use variables, snippets of code, entire pages, and more. The following table shows what is supported in Jekyll and this theme.

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Getting around the password prompts in SCPīefore you get into exploring Jekyll as a potential platform for help content, you may be wondering if it supports some basic features.