Five Minutes to Your Own Website
f Jekyll is a simple static site generator. This means it takes plain text files and renders them as a website that can then be served to the web through a web hosting service. One option for this service is GitHub Pages , free “websites hosted and easily published through GitHub.” With Jekyll + GitHub Pages, the source files for your website live in a GitHub repository that is automatically published to the web. Basically, Jekyll transforms text documents in a repository into a website and then that website is hosted by GitHub. The only thing you have to worry about is writing posts and editing a few of the text files to make things look how you want. As the Jekyll design philosophy states: Jekyll gets out of your way and allows you to concentrate on what truly matters: your content. You can follow this guide on GitHub to set up a new blank website. However, if you’re looking to make a simple blog as quick as possible, a better option is to fork (a GitHub term ...
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