To understand the differences and benefits of static vs dynamic websites, follow this quick visual tutorial :

Free & Automatic Hosting Free and Easy Blog Hosting With GitHub Pages. Jekyll-bootstrap is 100% compatible with deploying to GitHub.

GitHub compiles your site on every update so you don't even have to run any code locally! Just push your repository to a valid GitHub Pages endpoint and GitHub hosts your website <3.

Eases the Pain of Liquid Liquid can be very frustrating to work with so JB does the job for you. One of the hardest things about Jekyll is understanding and mastering the Liquid templating language.

JB ships with pre-built pages that would make you cry T_T to have to code manually in Liquid.

Backed by Twitter Bootstrap Get the power of Twitter Bootstrap with minimal hassle. Don't want Twitter Bootstrap? No problem, just install another theme.

Themes Install and Switch Blog Themes With One Command. Jekyll Bootstrap is the first Jekyll blogging engine to support modular theming.

This makes designing and sharing themes for Jekyll blogs much easier and automatic. Browse Current Themes (new window)

Comments Support For All Major Blog Comment Engines. Installation is as easy as pasting in your account identifier. Disqus

Livefyre

Intense Debate

Facebook

Posts & Pages Built-in Post and Page File Creation. The following page stubs are built-in. Creating these pages manually is harder than you think! archive.html

pages.html

tags.html

categories.html

sitemap.xml

atom.xml Plus easily create post and page file stubs using Jekyll Bootstrap's built in rake tasks.

Other Stuff

Contributors I don't regularly contribute to JB anymore. If you are interested in being a core-contributor to Jekyll-bootstrap please email me: plusjade@gmail.com.

I need help to manage the issues and pull requests piling up.