First Github Blog

18 Dec 2020 - Jekyll

Welcome to my GitHub Pages! This website is built up with the help of Jekyll, a static site generator. As my first blog, here I’m providing a brief summary of steps that I followed to setup this site using Jekyll.

First thing first: Installation of Jekyll. This is my first time to play with Jekyll, but luckily Jekyll has very detailed installation info at their website.

Once Jekyll is installed, the easiest way to build up a site is to run the command jekyll new my-website. It will generate a nice template. To view how the site looks like, bundle exec jekyll serve will do the job. However, I perfer bundle exec jekyll serve --watch instead. By adding --watch, Jekyll will auto rebuild the site every time I save my changes (except changes in the file _config.yml, which is a config file of Jekyll).

Although the generated template is nice enough, I found this Step by Step Tutorial is very helpful because I want to customize this website based on my own preference.

So far I have followed all the steps mentioned in the tutorial except the step 9. I will add more features such as grouping my blogs by tags, so stay tuned…