Using Jekyll for blogging

14 May, 2017

I started to like static site generators and decided to host my blog on github pages.

For the last few months I have been moving my blog from Blogger to Github pages and spent quite some time and energy to learn the jekyll static site generator, Liquid templating language , git/github and front-end web development in general to make the transition. Why?

Here are some of the reason why I chose jekyll/github pages over blogger/wordpress:

Making customization to the site just the way I like.
Keeping all the content/source to myself so that I can work offline.
Keeping everything under version control so that I can keep track of my changes and do much more.
Getting used to with the developer oriented workflow!

Currently I am on Windows and installed ruby and ruby DevKit. After some manual installation of required gems and using jekyll that way for a while, I found that simply installing the github-pages gem basically sets up the working environment properly so that just pushing the sources to github builds the site and deploys it. Currently, I am using the Lanyon theme and have customized it to my taste! Overall, I am happy with this minimalistic but somewhat hi-tech setup!