Using the blog

development

jekyll serve to build pages

new post

this is the front matter:

---
layout: post
title: "Launching the Statesman VoteTracker, a history lesson"
date: 2017-04-10 10:00:00 -0500
categories: votetracker
byline:
    - name: "Christian McDonald"
      twitter: "crit"
---

and then posts as markdown after

• name the file with the data at the beginning YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md
• The date field in front matter has to be current for the post to show.