Quickstart Collection Index

By bamr87

Index of all quickstart guides for building and deploying a Jekyll site with the zer0-mistakes theme — from machine setup to CI/CD automation.

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Table of Contents

Quickstart Collection

The _quickstart/ collection contains the complete setup and configuration guides for building a Jekyll site with the zer0-mistakes theme, VS Code, Front Matter CMS, and GitHub Pages.

Structure

File	Phase	Topic
index.md	All	Navigation hub — links to every phase
machine-setup.md	1	Prerequisites & machine setup (macOS, Windows, Linux)
github-setup.md	3	Repository creation & GitHub configuration
jekyll-setup.md	4	Jekyll & zer0-mistakes theme installation
site-configuration.md	5	_config.yml deep-dive
vscode-setup.md	6	VS Code extensions, tasks, Front Matter CMS
theme-architecture.md	7	Layouts, includes, Liquid, data files
content-creation.md	8	Posts, quests, docs, frontmatter standards
styling-navigation.md	9–10	Skins, CSS, navigation, sidebars, comments
local-development.md	11	Docker, native Ruby, VS Code tasks
deployment.md	12	GitHub Pages, Azure, manual deployment
cicd-automation.md	13	GitHub Actions workflows, testing, scripts
optimization-maintenance.md	14–15	SEO, performance, accessibility, maintenance
charm-setup.md	—	Charm terminal tools (supplementary)

Supplementary Guides

• 2025-07-22-vscode-for-neuroscience.md — VS Code for neuroscience workflows
• 2025-03-08-setting-up-django-and-git.md — Django project with Git

Navigation

The sidebar navigation for this collection is defined in _data/navigation/quickstart.yml.

Adding a New Guide

1. Create a new .md file in this directory
2. Add frontmatter with title, description, permalink: /quickstart/<name>/, and sidebar: nav: quickstart
3. Add the file to _data/navigation/quickstart.yml under the appropriate group
4. Link to it from index.md

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Last Updated: 2026-04-02