Setup a blog site on github with Jekyll

It’s never too late to make yourself a personal blog site, as long as you would like to spend sometime on some writings for someone else to take a look when they are searching about the things you are sharing. I am saying this to myself when I decided to setup this site and write this blog as the first post on the site(https://blog.devfans.io).

Resources we would use

• Github Pages: Github is an open platform for everyone whoever has the open source/resource idea in his mind. It provide static web site serving service for free which is named as github pages. (link: https://pages.github.com/)

• Jekyll: Jekyll is the most popular tool to transform plain text into static websites and blogs. (link: https://jekyllrb.com/)
• A domain name(optional): You may like to have your own domain name like https://blog.devfans.io, but it’s optional because github provide you a free domain name as your-user-name.github.io

Steps to setup it up

• If you get yourself a domain name for your site, go to the provider’s website and create a CNAME record for your domain name with value as your-gihtub-username.github.io.

• Create a repo after you have your own github account, name it as your-gihtub-username.github.io and enable the github pages, and configure the custom domain name if you have one. Check the enforce https option is recommended in addition.

• Clone a jekyll blog template you would like to choose (The one I am using is https://github.com/wowthemesnet/mundana-theme-jekyll.git).

• Config the site’s name and author in _config.yaml, setup a comment tool (like disqus).

• Push the working copy to your github repo, and it’s up.

Sum up

I was mainly talking about the ideas to setup a personal blog site on github pages with Jekyll and didnt cover every details during the process. If you really want the detailed procedures, leave a comment below to let me know.

Besides, I am not a native English speaker, just trying to use it and get used to it.