Themes

I saw a website called Ewal.net that I liked the look and feel of and contacted the guy behind it, he said the theme was based on Slash.

I started by installing Slash.

cd octopress
git clone git://github.com/tommy351/Octopress-Theme-Slash.git .themes/slash
rake install['slash']
rake generate
rake deploy

Didn’t really like it, and when I looked at https://github.com/ervwalter/octopress-ewal I couldn’t see slash in the .themes directory.

Reverted changes.

rake install['classic']
rake generate
rake deploy

Maybe adding another theme should be left for another day. However I’m impressed with the ease that the theme could be changed.

Customisations

My source of inspiration was again Ewal.net and an article about customisations. I decided to try a few.

I removed blog from the URL. I like the idea of FancyBox, but I am not sure of the best way to integrate it to my Markdown workflow.

The next change I made was to add the line

system "mate \"#{filename}\""

to the new_post section of the Rakefile. This opened up the new post in TextMate.

Comments

Octopress supports Disqus comments. I wanted to enable these on the site. I went to Disqus and signed up, registered the site resourcemine, and edited the _config.yml file to add my disqus_short_name and disqus_show_comment_count. Note the disqus_short_name is the shortname from Disqus.