• Front matter is an example OF metadata
    • “data about the data”
    • this data isn’t specifically in the post, it’s about the post
    • “Samit” is not inside me, but it describes me and gives data about me
  • Liquid code is code that exists in the programming location, but transforms/converts when produced in browser
    • essentially a placeholder
    • allows us to display data in a template
    • liquid files are a mixture of HTML and Liquid code