Creating bozica.co
Once more I have decided to create a blog. I want to have an online space where I can organize and share my ideas about topics of my interest. Its main purpose is to document different activities that I do, for example, the creation of this very blog.
This blog is created with Nikola this is how you can get started in less than 5 minutes, you can also follow the official Getting started or the Handbook
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create virtual environment with python version 3
mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3 bozica python -V # Python 3.4.3 deactivate # get out of virtualenv workon bozica # enter virtualenv
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working on bozica virtualenv install nikola python package
pip install nikola pip install webassets pip install pygal nikola init bozica
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answer nikola questions
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create post and build
nikola new_post
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give a name to your first post, write it and save it.
nikola build
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finally check out your blog by opening in your browser the address http://localhost:8000/ or typing in the terminal
nikola serve --browser
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create a new theme based on http://bootswatch.com/ themes and theme bootstrap3 as parent
nikola bootswatch_theme -n journal_bozica -s journal -p bootstrap3
from this point you can start customizing your blog to get the look that you want to achieve, these are good tutorials about customizing your theme.
- http://www.shisaa.jp/postset/nikola-web.html
- https://getnikola.com/theming.html
- http://stephaniehiga.com/posts/the-design-of-everyday-blogs.html
- upload the content of folder /output to your favorite hosting server and domain and enjoy!
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