#WP7 Jekyll "app site" templates
Many mobile apps are relatively simple, and don't need a fully blown websites to accompany them - usually a simple, static, single page is suffice.
###Setup GitHub pages for hosting and Jekyll for templating/static site generation is a perfect fit for this scenario, but keep an eye out on Code52 for alternative Jekyll generators.
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Create a GitHub repo
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Enable GH-Pages
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Run some git commands.
git clone git:https://github.com/aeoth/Wp7JekyllTemplates.git cd Wp7JekyllTemplates git remote add MySite <yourGitHubUrl>
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You'll then need to customise your site, open up
_config.yml
and you'll see a bunch of settings like 'your app name', 'accent' (that is the "blue" colour in the example below), your AppId etc. There is also the option to change the phone type from the defaultlumia710whiteblue
to the emulator, HTC, Samsung or Nokia phones. -
Replace the images in
img\screenshots
with your own screenshots. They should all be 400x240. -
Deploy your site with more git!
git add -A git commit -m "init" git push MySite master:gh-pages
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Within 10 minutes (it's only "that slow" the first time), your site will be running at https://YOURNAME.github.com/REPONAME/. You can even use your own domain, but look at the GitHub Pages documentation for that
###Todo
- Dynamic number of screenshots (set in config)
- Mobile templates
- More social integration