Jekyll

We have already seen in our Jekyll series, how you can change your default theme using RubyGems. However, instead of changing your whole theme, you can also edit the theme you have and creat new layouts based on your own design. In this article, we’re going to show you how to edit your Jekyll theme. Read More >

Continuing in our Jekyll series, we have already learned how to create a Jekyll site. And you will have noticed that the Jekyll site comes with a default theme. In this article, we’re going to show you how to change your Jekyll theme from the default to a theme of your choosing. In order for Read More >

In this article, we’ll show you how you can automate your publishing process with secure copy (SCP). In the customizing Jekyll article we learned about how you can change the base directory of your site. This means you will be building your site into a specific directory, which is going to be important later. Then, Read More >

In this article, we’ll show you how to publish your Jekyll site. There are many different ways to do this. The process can even be automated (and we’ll show how to do that later). Automating the publishing process is a popular option because otherwise you will be manually uploading files to your site every time Read More >

Your site is unique. So you will need a place where you can edit the Jekyll example content. (You’ll remember we created a Jekyll site in the previous article.) Jekyll puts these options into a configuration file called _config.yml. Using this “config” file, this article will show you how to customize your Jekyll site. Where Read More >

In this tutorial: How to Create a Jekyll Site How to Add Posts to Your Jekyll Blog How to Add Pages to the Jekyll Site Reviewing our Jekyll series, we have already learned what Jekyll is and why you might want to use it for your site. We’ve also learned how to install Jekyll. Make Read More >

You have already learned a bit about the Jekyll static-site CMS and what the benefits and downsides are. In this article, we’ll show you how to install Jekyll on your local computer. The most basic usage of Jekyll will start by generating the site in your computer and then uploading it to your server. That Read More >

In this series of article we’re going to introduce you to the Jekyll static site Content Management System (CMS). Static site generators are different from dynamic site systems like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. While dynamic sites are generated based on various types of back-end processing and pulling information from databases, static site systems generate complete Read More >

In this article, we will cover a basic installation of the Jekyll static site generator. Then, we will create and launch the default Jekyll site, which you can later customize. To learn more about what Jekyll is and how you can use it, check out the previous article regarding What is Jekyll? Moving Forward with Read More >