Costruire siti web con GitLab: Glossary

A static site generator combines page-specific content with layout elements and styling information to construct individual webpages.

GitHub/GitLab Pages is a good choice for people who are already familiar with Git and GitHub/GitLab.

This approach can be used to create a relatively small website/blog on a limited budget.

Markdown is an relatively easy way to write formatted text

Markdown and HTML tags can be used together in a single page

I recommend writing Markdown links ‘reference-style’

The landing page for a website is conventionally named index.md

GitLab serves pages in your project according to a configuration file called .gitlab-ci.yml

Through Jekyll, GitLab serves pages are generated from .md files

Through Sphinx, GitLab serves pages are generated from .rst files

Through Jupyter books, you’ll be able to integrate interactive components and code in your web pages

You can find many pre-existing templates for sites on the Internet

You can find the presented themes for sites in our local GitLab

You can avoid duplicated effort by basing new layouts on previous ones

If a pipeline fails, GitLab will provide you useful feedback on why