Local Development Setup

Prerequisites: Node.js and Ruby

1. Apache Configuration (Don’t forget to restart Apache)

    <VirtualHost *>
    ServerName nejsconf.com.local
    DocumentRoot "/PATH_TO_SITE/"
    Alias /web/ /PATH_TO_SITE/web/_site/
    </virtualHost>
   

2. Add to /etc/hosts

    127.0.0.1	nejsconf.com.local
   

3. bundle install

4. gem install jekyll (requires 1.0+)

5. gem install sass

6. gem install rdiscount

7. npm install

8. composer.phar install

9. gulp

Local Development Workflow

1. gulp serve
2. Open http://localhost:8080/

To install new local npm packages, use npm install PACKAGE_NAME --save-dev

Design Notes

Colors

Background/Gold: #e9ca20 Dark Gold (Brown?): #c09801 White: #ffffff

Fonts

Effra Heavy Effra Heavy Italic Effra Bold Effra Medium

Font Sizes

"NEJS CONF 2015": 72px (Heavy) "JAVASCRIPT IN THE WILD": 48px (Heavy Italic) Date: 32px (Heavy)

"GET NOTIFIED": 28px (Heavy) "when tickets go on-sale": 16px (Medium) "APPLY TO SPEAK" + "SPONSOR US": 18px (BOLD)

Footer text: 18px (Medium)