Jekyll Minimalist

This website is a minimalist boilerplate hosted on GitHub Pages.

Create your standalone website in few minutes without installing anything or touching the command line. All you need is your GitHub account (or email).

Quick Start

View source of this site on GitHub. Click on Fork button. You may need to Sign in (or Create an account). Go to Settings of your new repository and rename it to USERNAME.github.io , where USERNAME is your username on GitHub. Check (on Settings page) that GitHub Pages is enabled. Your site should be available at: https://USERNAME.github.io/

Add your pages

Click on Create new file in your new repository. Type-in file name, e.g. about.md Put some file content like this:

--- title: About --- This site is clean and beautiful.

It is important to use front matter with title in every file. The new page should be available at https://USERNAME.github.io/about . It’s derived from its file name.

Custom domain (optional)

Add CNAME file to your repository with your domain name. For example:

www.romanzolotarev.com

Then add CNAME record to DNS zone for your domain that points to USERNAME.github.io . For example:

;; CNAME Records www.romanzolotarev.com. 300 IN CNAME romanzolotarev.github.io.

Now your site should be available via your domain name. In case of those examples at:

https://www.romanzolotarev.com/

Install Jekyll on your computer (optional)

GitHub Pages uses Jekyll to do all this magic. If you are familiar with git, then you may want to install GitHub Pages (with Jekyll) on your computer. So you will be able to edit your pages locally (e.g. when you are offline) and view your site locally before publishing.

For example, to install it on macOS run the following commands. First, clone your repository and run Jekyll locally:

$ git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/USERNAME.github.io $ cd USERNAME.github.io

Install bundler :

$ gem install bundler

…and then jekyll with jekyll-livereload plug-in:

$ bundle install

Start your local web server:

$ bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload --increment

While Jekyll is running, open http://localhost:4000/ in your browser. Your site should be there. You can add and edit pages and Jekyll will automatically regenerate HTML files.

© 2017-2018 by Roman Zolotarev

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