I've created a more detailed walkthrough, Build A Blog With Jekyll And GitHub Pages over at the Smashing Magazine website. Check it out if you'd like a more detailed walkthrough and some background on Jekyll. ๐ค
It covers:
- A more detailed walkthrough of setting up your Jekyll blog
- Common issues that you might encounter while using Jekyll
- Importing from Wordpress, using your own domain name, and blogging in your favorite editor
- Theming in Jekyll, with Liquid templating examples
- A quick look at Jekyll 2.0โs new features, including Sass/Coffeescript support and Collections
โ Command-line free fork-first workflow, using GitHub.com to create, customize and post to your blog
โ Fully responsive and mobile optimized base theme (Theme Demo)
โ Sass/Coffeescript support using Jekyll 2.0
โ Free hosting on your GitHub Pages user site
โ Markdown blogging
โ Syntax highlighting
โ Disqus commenting
โ Google Analytics integration
โ SVG social icons for your footer
โ 3 http requests, including your avatar
โ No installing dependencies
โ No need to set up local development
โ No configuring plugins
โ No need to spend time on theming
โ More time to code other things ... wait โ!
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You can use the Quick Start workflow with other themes that are set up to be forked too! Here are some of my favorites:
- Hyde by MDO
- Lanyon by MDO
- mojombo.github.io by Tom Preston-Werner
- Left by Zach Holman
- Minimal Mistakes by Michael Rose
- Skinny Bones by Michael Rose