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Why would I use this over blogger or even just gh_pages? Why .textile, is that file magical? What if I want two blog entries? Can I have each blog entry its own folders? What about other markup? Is http://gitcp.com/sorenbs/jsgames-articles an example or something unrelated that you did and just linking to?

The image fails in your test: http://gitcp.com/sorenbs/Git-Code-Press/markup-test

Rather than four hands showing you what to do having the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 as circle dots or something would be more clear.

How do I customize the header/footer?

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Thank you for some great questions. First, it is probably not completely clear, but the links at the bottom is a list of existing blogs. At the moment there are 2 :-) jsgames-articles is the project i was working on when i realised i had to create this git-powered blogging system. Now that it is ready, i can get back to work.

I find Blogger and the other online wysiwyg style systems to be too much of a hazzle to work with. I wasn't aware of github pages, but it looks really nice. I will probably find some inspiration there. From what i can tell github pages lets you create an arbitrary website structure with arbitrary styling, whereas the goal with gcp.com is ease of use and a nice standard layout (sort of like latex). That is also why i haven't added header and footer support, but i should probably make some minimal customaization available, like name and tagline.

.textile is sort of a convention for files with textile markup. I could add support for other markup formats. What would you suggest?

What I meant by the .textile is that on the site you shouldn't say 'push a .textile", you should say "push a *.textile such as foo.textile" I read it such that the file name had to be ".textile" which made me wonder how you would have more than one post.

"I find Blogger and the other online wysiwyg style systems to be too much of a hazzle to work with" Can you be more specific? blogger lets you go to plain text editor and not use the wysiwyg so that is a moot point. I have issues with blogger, but that isn't what I would pick on.

I thought that push a .textile was pretty clear.

Ahh, i see. I have tried to make it a bit more clear. Perhaps i should put a link to a github repo to make it easier to understand the structure.

What i believe gitcp.com does better than blogger is this: No need for a web interface (might be negative for some); textile markup is much easier to write than html or using some gui editor, and gives a much nicer result than raw text; syntax highlighting of code snippets (this is the primary use case for me).

Even knowing that the links at the bottom of the page are blogs that are already using your thing, "Code Collections" makes no sense as a header. None. How about "Latest blogs powered by Git Code Press"?

Absolutely.

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