prose.io provides a very easy to use, minimal, yet intuitive interface, allowing even people without git know-how, to easily wade through their site files and make edits, or create new posts. The separate metadata entry mechanism is nice, and the preview functionality gives one an opportunity to inspect stuff, before committing their changes/posts.
[Tutorial] Using prose.io for posting
August 16, 2017
[Tutorial] How to create a new post
August 9, 2017
This is post geared towards users who are not git savvy, and wish to use github-pages to power their blogs. Here is how to create a new post, using just the github interface.
- Login into your github account, select your github.io repository.
- Go to the _posts directory, and click on ‘Create File’
- Fill in the filename in the format ‘YYYY-MM-DD-postname.md’
- Fill in the frontmatter aka metadata, starting and ending with three dashes, like this.