From 885449e12fc28efb2ffcd06ce1dbc2841bc4c646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: EilidhRoss1 <98904290+EilidhRoss1@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:11:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add editing guide to site --- meta/editing.md | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/meta/editing.md b/meta/editing.md index cbe34da..8b1d709 100644 --- a/meta/editing.md +++ b/meta/editing.md @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ You will find the wiki content mostly in the folders ‘claims’ and ‘concept The website is written in Markdown. A tool called content layer converts the Markdown files into HTML (the standard computer language for displaying and formatting web pages) so that they are displayed as pages on the site. This is the case for all pages on the website except for the homepage which is written directly in HTML. - #### Markdown Markdown is a markup language (computer language for displaying and formatting web pages), which is designed to be easy to write and easy to read. It’s widely deployed on the web, for example by DataHub, GitHub, Stackoverflow and many other sites. @@ -27,12 +26,10 @@ In Markdown, you control the display of the document. For instance, you can form Head over to our [Markdown Guide](https://playbook.datopian.com/markdown/#why-markdown) to learn more about Markdown and how to use it. - #### Front Matter In the world of computer programming, front matter is metadata (data about data) at the top of a file. Front matter does two things: a) it displays key info about a page (such as its title and description) in a structured way which helps with a consistent layout throughout the site and b) is used as metadata for SEO (search engine optimization) purposes, helping our content to reach interested readers. - ##### Using front matter Front matter should always be at the very top of the Markdown file, marked out by three dashes (---) above and below. @@ -109,7 +106,6 @@ In this stage, you ‘clone’ your forked repository, i.e. you copy your forked * Type into Terminal the command “git clone” and then paste the repo URL you copied. E.g. “git clone https://github.com/life-itself/web3.git”. Press enter. (1:13-1:48) * N.B. When you try this, you may be prompted to install command line developer tools to be able to run git commands, e.g. XCode for Mac. If this is the case, follow the instructions for installation. - ##### Stage 3: Branch In this stage, you create a new ‘branch’, or temporary version, of the repository on which to make edits. These edits will later be merged with the main repository branch.