I am currently in the process of trying to learn Jekyll so I can build my blog on my local machine and then push to Github Pages. My initial impression is that I'm not crazy about it. Why does it have to be so hard just to set up a blog using markdown? Sigh.
Just start with a free theme from the internet to get up and running quickly (just search "free Jekyll themes"). As time passes, you will find yourself rewriting half the code anyway and adding a heap of stuff.
You can see my blog now vs. the original theme — although I changed a lot behind the scenes SEO and performance-wise as well as the visible changes
Pretty much! I'm still using Jekyll, still using the same original theme – although now I've changed so much of it that it's almost completely different! 😅
Now I use Netlify to host my blog (also free), but the code is still taken from the GitHub repository.
I am currently in the process of trying to learn Jekyll so I can build my blog on my local machine and then push to Github Pages. My initial impression is that I'm not crazy about it. Why does it have to be so hard just to set up a blog using markdown? Sigh.
Just start with a free theme from the internet to get up and running quickly (just search "free Jekyll themes"). As time passes, you will find yourself rewriting half the code anyway and adding a heap of stuff.
You can see my blog now vs. the original theme — although I changed a lot behind the scenes SEO and performance-wise as well as the visible changes
That looks really good! Are you still on Github Pages using Jekyll? 😄
Pretty much! I'm still using Jekyll, still using the same original theme – although now I've changed so much of it that it's almost completely different! 😅
Now I use Netlify to host my blog (also free), but the code is still taken from the GitHub repository.
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Hmm.. Are you trying to change templates and such? If not, Jekyll should not be so difficult to start with one of its many themes :).
The only reason I had chosen Jekyll was github.io. Later, I saw that effort as futile and moved to Hugo and Netlify.
Shameless self-plug: github.com/prashanth1k/levelup-you...