This repository is meant to help create a quick start / Hello world version of a website using Jekyll and Markdown as a way of creating a website from plain text.
This page covers developer instructions to work with this repository.
This repository is meant as a template repository for a blog site and uses Jekyll to transform markdown files into HTML. It has necessary setup to be deployed on to GitHub pages.
If you simply want to publish files using the default theme and markdown files and are happy to let Github pages do the publishing then the is not much to do just learn a little bit about Jekyll site structure and start creating posts inside the _posts directory. There is a getting started post already included there. You can start by editing that post.
If you want to edit and preview files on local machine then some set up is needed.
- Ruby Installation
- GitHub repository from Template
- Jekyll CLI setup
- Jekyll local server
- Customization
- GitHub Push
- Set up Jekyll Website project
- Set up GitHub Pages publishin Action
- Set up custom remote theme for Jekyll
- Set up site as a Jekyll Site starter template
- Improve read me file for real technical users.
- Create a "5 minute Quickstart - Jekyll for dummies" blog for non technical users