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
git clone https://github.com/forever-jekyll/forever-jekyll.git
cd forever-jekyll
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve
then open http://localhost:4000/ in your browser to show jekyll live server
Template Themes:
- https://jekyll-themes.com/forever-jekyll/
- https://jekyll-themes.com/gesko/
- https://github.com/mukulkhanna/leonids-v2
- https://github.com/renyuanz/leonids
Usefull Websites
- https://prose.io/ A Content Editor for GitHub
- http://www.get-youtube-thumbnail.com/ Get YouTube Video Thumbnail Image