Migrate from Drupal to Jekyll

Posted: 27 Nov 2010

This morning, I played some football with friends from Staples High School. What fun!

I told a bunch of the guys that I'm going to fix up my personal website today. So, here I go. I'm renovating it and migrating it from Drupal to GitHub Pages. One of the other big reasons for this move is that my hosting with [GoDaddy Economy Hosting][gd-hosting] is expiring. And, although GoDaddy offers really cheap hosting (I got three years for $80.) and does the job well enough, why choose GoDaddy when I can host my website on GitHub for free? Plus, being a Ruby guy, I think I'll enjoy Jekyll much more than Drupal.

So, here are the steps to complete this project:

GitHub Pages: Get this post up on mattdipasquale.github.com
- Copy & modify mojombo's GitHub Pages repo.
- Create & push to the [GitHub repo mattdipasquale.github.com][GitHub-me].
Theme/style it up, add some photos, Google Analytics tracking code, Disqus, etc.
Write a script for Jekyll to migrate all my posts from Drupal to Jekyll.

This is sort of a test post to get this migration started and to test things out.

Wish me the best!

Migrate from Drupal to Jekyll

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