Welcome to Jekyll!

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    Building a website nowadays is not as hard or expensive as it was in the past. These days, you do not have to learn a crazy programming language to have your site up and running.

    Instead, you can go the Jamstack way. In this article, we go through how to build and deploy a Jekyll site.

    Prerequisites

    To follow through this tutorial, you will need:

    • A code editor. Feel free to use your preferred code editor. You can download VS Code here.
    • Some basic skills in HTML and CSS.

    By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to build a Jekyll blog from scratch.

    Step 1 – Install Ruby

    Since Jekyll is written in Ruby, you will need a Ruby installation on your machine to run Jekyll. In Windows

    https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

    Step 2 – Install Jekyll

    Open a new command prompt window from the start menu, so that changes to the PATH environment variable becomes effective. Install Jekyll and Bundler using gem install jekyll bundler

    1git clone https://github.com/forever-jekyll/forever-jekyll.git
2cd forever-jekyll
3bundle install
4bundle exec jekyll serve

    {: lang=“bash”}

    then open http://localhost:4000/ in your browser to show jekyll live server

    Template Themes:

    Usefull Websites

    A Content Editor for GitHub

    For more references