From the course: Learning Static Site Building with Jekyll
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The site configuration file
From the course: Learning Static Site Building with Jekyll
The site configuration file
- [Instructor] Every jekyll project contains a configuration file called _config.yml If you've installed a theme, you already know that one of the steps is to edit config.yml and change that theme property. There's a few other properties you want to change here as well. You can change the title of your site, I'll say an awesome static site, I'll add my email address here and I'll add a description as well, I'll say, this is an example of a great static site built in jekyll. Later on, when you get ready to publish the site and you have your own domain name, you want to put that here, in the Url property. You might say https://www.awesomestaticsites.com I'll update the twitter username to mine and my github username as well. If you have a more complex theme installed, it may add more properties to this configuration file. When you make changes to the contents of your site while the previous server is running, you can refresh your browser to see those changes immediately. However, it's…
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