Publishing Fancy Static Websites

Middleman makes it easy to develop and compile static sites with Haml, Sass, and CoffeeScript.

We love Rails, but let's face it, it's complete overkill for static sites. Middleman is a standalone gem that provides all our favorite Rails features for writing markup and scripts and packaging assets.

GitHub Pages is a free and modern static hosting service that supports HTTPS and custom domain names.

Before class, please review the Middleman Getting Started Guide, create a GitHub account, and configure your Git with GitHub.

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