Blogging with Octopress: Add About Page

Adding About Me page, probably one of the first thing to do, right?

Note: If you just want to say few words about yourself on the aside panel, skip to About Me on the aside panel

Create the page:

rake new_page["about"]

rake creates a new page located in source/about/index.markdown

I edited mine to look like:

---
layout: page
title: "About Me"
comments: true
sharing: true
footer: true
---

Note that I removed the date line because it doesn’t make sense in this page.

You probably want to add the About page in the top menu, right?

vi source/_includes/custom/navigation.html

#add the line to the bottom of the page:
<li><a href="{{ root_url }}/about">About</a></li>

If u want to put some words about yourself on the side panel panel, do this:

vi source/_includes/custom/asides/about.html

<h1>your name<h1/>
<p>some words about you, not longer than a line.</p>

Then enable the about html in the aside bar by:

vi _config.yml

default_asides: [custom/asides/about.html, OTHER STUFF] # leave all other pages as is

Now the world knows about who you are :-)