Github pages uses Jekyll, which is a static site generator. Basically
you give markdown, and it renders that to markup, and provides
variables and ways to insert headers and footers. It's pretty nifty, I
think it's really taken off ever since Github adopted it.  The
documentation is pretty good ( http://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/ ), and
there's really no lack of tutorials and templates out there as well.
It's what I used to make the new AsterixDB website, and what Flink
uses for their website as well.

- Ian

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Jochen Wiedmann
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Are ou referring to the gh-pages brach? AFAIK, that requires basic
> HTML files. I typically use Maven to create a site.
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> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Preston Carman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> With GSOC, we are using github for code reviews and accepting work into
>> VXQuery. Is there a way to store our website documentation so that it can
>> double for easy viewing on github? Is there a tool/file format for building
>> websites that is github friendly?
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> and Stripe toothpaste can't be all bad. (C.R. MacNamara, One Two Three)

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