Tagged As Liquid

18 Jul 2020

Jekyll Tag Cloud

Filed under Coding and tagged as Jekyll, Liquid, and Math.

Building from Thursday’s post, an alternative method for displaying tags by count had occurred to me: the classic “tag cloud”. Displaying tags in a list (or, ideally, within a bunch or a circle) with the font size of the tag representing visually the relative importance of a tag to the blog compared to other tags. It accomplishes the same goal as a simple ordered-by-post-count list (showing what you care about), but it’s visual and interesting.

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16 Jul 2020

Tags Organized by Count (Size)

Filed under Coding and tagged as Jekyll and Liquid.

Jekyll is blog-aware and it runs on Liquid (plus Markdown, HTML, CSS, etc.). Liquid is a templating language, not a fully-fledged programming language. Jekyll+Liquid can make a great website/blog, but sometimes things to a little haywire.

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15 Jul 2020

Designing with Liquid

Filed under Coding and tagged as Jekyll and Liquid.

I’ve taken a shot at coding for Jekyll a couple of times in the past, but never have I done it so completely as I have now to almost avoid hardcoding anything except on layouts and includes.

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