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There is some unnecessary extra white space on resources page. See image:

Hi Karl, thanks a bunch for this! All your tutorials are very clear. I also liked your simple layout better than all options given by github pages. Sorry I'll combine a few things here:

• around here
  you could add instructions to remove or edit License.md and ReadMe.md.
  Both are specific to your site.
• to create and populate the orphan gh-pages branch around
  here, you could
  add that git rm -rf . does not actually delete .git/, which stores the project history (good thing!).

More selfishly, cloning your repo didn't give me the nice layout that you have: website and repo.
Not knowing what goes into _includes/, _layouts/ or _plugins/, I don't know where to start to find the problem. Any ideas or pointers?
Thanks!

The overview page says:

These files won't be touched in the conversion but will be just copied over as-is.

But that's not true. It seems like all .md files get converted to .html. There's nothing special about assets/ and pages/.

@cecileane suggested:

• to create and populate the orphan gh-pages branch around
  here, you could
  add that git rm -rf . does not actually delete .git/, which stores the project history (good thing!).

When you click the link to more resources on the site's published home page, it gets a 404. The link goes to pages/pages/resources.html; if I edit it to pages/resources.html, then it works fine.

Hi Karl, I was playing around with your "simple_site" today, and I wasn't able to get the site to render properly. I eventually figured out that the problem is due to some content being provided as http instead of https:

https://help.github.com/articles/securing-your-github-pages-site-with-https

Note that is likely a browser-dependent issue, so may not be a problem in your browser.

This is now fixed in my fork (although I may have gone overboard in replacing http with https; not sure if all those edits were needed):

https://github.com/pcarbo/simple_site

If if is helpful, I can make a pull request so that you can see where I made the changes.

Peter

all the links here are dead and 404

Is there any way to add a sticky sidenav to simple site?
I can stick one in the themes\twitter\default file but then there's no way to link it to the text on each individual md page and it fights with the layout.

I tried changing layout from 'page' to 'post' thinking the layout might have a sidenav built in, but the layout of the page didn't change at all. I can't follow how it's using default.html instead of page.html or post.html to set the layout. Could you please clarify? I'm quite new to coding but having a sticky sidenav would be really useful for a website in general.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to the "Overview of GitHub Pages" located here: https://kbroman.org/simple_site/pages/overview.html
2. In the first paragraph of that page and the last sentence and the last few words, click the "resources page" link which is: https://kbroman.org/simple_site/pages/pages/resources.html
3. 404 error is thrown

Could you give some pointers on how one goes about to apply one of the themes given here to simple_site?
Thanks for your work and your tutorial on how to use simple_site.

@kbroman I just want to thank you a lot, after a week trying to learn Git, Git Hub and how to create a Git Hub page, today I found this repository and it helped me figure out the mistakes I've been making. Great job!

@cecileane suggested:

• around here
  you could add instructions to remove or edit License.md and ReadMe.md.
  Both are specific to your site.