Add CONTRIBUTING.md for rocksdb.org contribution guidance

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---
title: Blog Post Example
layout: post
author: exampleauthor
category: blog
---
This is an example blog post introduction, try to keep it short and about a paragraph long, to encourage people to click through to read the entire post.
<!--truncate-->
Everything below the `<!--truncate-->` tag will only show on the actual blog post page, not on the `/blog/` index.
Author is defined in `_data/authors.yml`

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This provides guidance on how to contribute various content to `rocksdb.org`.
## Landing page
Modify `index.md` with your new or updated content.
If you want a `GridBlock` as part of your content, you can do so directly with HTML:
```
<div class="gridBlock">
<div class="blockElement twoByGridBlock alignLeft">
<div class="blockContent">
<h3>HHVM Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://example.org/">Example</a></li>
<li><a href="http://example.com">Another Example</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="blockElement twoByGridBlock alignLeft">
<div class="blockContent">
<h3>More information</h3>
<p>
Stuff here
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
```
or with a combination of changing `./_data/features.yml` and adding some Liquid to `index.md`, such as:
```
{% include content/gridblocks.html data_source=site.data.features imagealign="bottom"%}
```
## Blog
Adding a new blog post is a four-step process.
> Some posts have a `permalink` and `comments` in the blog post YAML header. You will not need these for new blog posts. These are an artifact of migrating the blog from Wordpress to gh-pages.
1. Create your blog post in `./_posts` in markdown (file extension `.md` or `.markdown`). See current posts in that folder or `2016-04-07-blog-post-example.md` for an example of the YAML format.
- You can add a `<!--truncate-->` tag in the middle of your post such that you show only the excerpt above that tag in the main `/blog` index on your page.
1. If you have not authored a blog post before, modify the `./_data/authors.yml` file with the `author` id you used in your blog post, along with your full name and Facebook ID to get your profile picture.
1. [Run the site locally](./README.md) to test your changes. It will be at `http://127.0.0.1/blog/your-new-blog-post-title.html`
1. Push your changes to GitHub.
## Docs
To modify docs, edit the appropriate markdown file in `./_docs`.
To add docs to the site, ....
1. Add your markdown file to the `./_docs` folder. See `./docs-hello-world.md` for an example of the YAML header format.
- You can use folders in the `./_docs` directory to organize your content if you want.
1. Update `_data/nav_docs.yml` to add your new document to the navigation bar. Use the `id` you put in your doc markdown in ad the id in the `_data/nav_docs.yml` file.
1. [Run the site locally](./README.md) to test your changes. It will be at `http://127.0.0.1/docs/your-new-doc-permalink.html`
1. Push your changes to GitHub.
## Header Bar
To modify the header bar, change `./_data/nav.yml`.
## Other Changes
- CSS: `./css/main.css` or `./_sass/*.scss`.
- Images: `./static/images/[docs | posts]/....`
- Main Blog post HTML: `./_includes/post.html`
- Main Docs HTML: `./_includes/doc.html`

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# Any local docs would go in this directory
#---
#docid: hello-world
#title: Hello, World!
#layout: docs
#permalink: /docs/hello-world.html
#---
#This is some placeholder text, but you can use any kind of Markdown syntax here.
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