z[Old] Methods of hosting your own site with visualisations

RawGit

Paste

https://github.com/hpcc-systems/Visualization/blob/master/my_widget/my_first_widget.html

into the prompt and now enjoy your widget hosted online!

RawGit should be used for the early dev/testing stage, GitHub Pages is a much more efficient method of hosting.

GitHub Pages and Jekyll

The process of setting up a website hosted on GitHub is explained here

https://help.github.com/articles/creating-pages-with-the-automatic-generator/

and when the user is comfortable with establishing a new Project Page or Organisation Page we will then move onto using GutHub Pages with Jekyll.

Assuming the user is comfortable with how GitHub Pages works, let's now incorporate them with Jekyll.

Jekyll powers GitHub Pages and it is a blog aware, static site generator in Ruby.

The following two links should be all that is needed to get up to speed with what Jekyll is and what Jekyll does.

Jekyll

Jekyll bootstrap

To install Jekyll, run the following command in the directory that will contain your website

gem install jekyll

now, we have Jekyll installed in our web directory. We use the following command to create a new Jekyll directory that will contain the boilerplate Jekyll code that will contain the webpage files

jekyll new website_directory

and change into this directory

cd website_directory

and inspecting it's contents it should have the following structure

_includes	about.md
_layouts	css
_posts		feed.xml
_sass		index.html ```

and [http://jekyllbootstrap.com/lessons/jekyll-introduction.html#toc_6](here) gives a good explanation of the purpose of each of these files. 

To host the webpage locally, run the following 

  ``` jekyll serve ```

and open a web browser and search 

  ``` http://localhost:4000 ``` 

The beauty of this is we can push this to the repo from where the website will be hosted and all content can be managed by Jekyll locally and always saved by GitHub - also there will be no hosting problems in relation to updating the site, in contrast to the case of RawGit.