Custom landing page with Octopress
I installed Octopress and want to use a completely custom styling, basically throwing away most of the standard styling that is applied to the rest of the site.
I want to keep a link to all the responsive goodness even though this is baked.
What's the best way to customize my landing page?
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Do you mean this?
^ - My site is Octopress.
The blog is located at: http://eduncan911.com/blog
Since Octopress uses Jekyll under the skin, it would be better to think about how to do this from a Jekyll perspective - and there are many ways to do it.
OT: Personally, I find that the layout of the Octopress theme includes customs that are too complex and too granular. They did this to make it highly customizable; but in my opinion it tightly connects each template to another template.
Now that having said that, there are several ways to achieve this. I answered a very similar question:
Create octopress theme from wordpress theme
This is Jekyll: so just visit the page however you want. Replace with /source/index.html
whatever design, html and css you want.
If you don't want to book a blog or want to move the "blog to a different directory", just move the current one /source/index.html
, say /source/blog/index.html
. It.
As I pointed out in the answer above, the only thing related to persisting the YAML database and specifying the "layout" is how you want to use. For example, I have a layout called "home page" that is very different from any other layout. Mine /source/index.html
uses layout: homepage
.
But even then, you don't even need to use YAML - create your own raw html file as you see fit. It will be used when you are rake generate
. This is what I personally did at the beginning. Then I slowly split the homepage into /source/_layouts/homepage.html
and just went from there. I didn't stick with the whole Octopress theme at all - just enough to use posts and pages.
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