@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz hee, not quite
i write in markdown, which github just renders richly (you can look at the raw versions by clicking "raw" on github)
for example, here's the notes page: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Archenoth/archenoth.github.io/master/notes.md
compared to what it renders as on my site: https://archenoth.com/notes/
and here's a blog post: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Archenoth/archenoth.github.io/master/_posts/2013-10-09-Sneaky-images.md
and how that renders: https://archenoth.com/tricks/2013/10/07/Sneaky-images.html
@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz the "layout" thing along the top just determines which of the layout tempates it's gonna use for the page, which are all here: https://github.com/Archenoth/archenoth.github.io/tree/master/_layouts
so each blog posts is like this: https://github.com/Archenoth/archenoth.github.io/blob/master/_layouts/post.html
and that in turn has layout: default, which is this: https://github.com/Archenoth/archenoth.github.io/blob/master/_layouts/default.html
the includes are all in the include folder: https://github.com/Archenoth/archenoth.github.io/tree/master/_includes
@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz a lot of this might seem kinda complicated, but honestly, you basically get this setup by default, and just need to tweak things until they look like you want
and speaking of that, the css is prepossessed too, so a lot of changes you can make can be done by just changing some variables in the main scss file: https://github.com/Archenoth/archenoth.github.io/blob/master/css/main.scss