Learn to create your own blog using the Jekyll static site generator. You'll start with a
simple template add new features to it automate any maintenance attach social sharing and
begin writing. By the end of Creating Blogs with Jekyll you will be able to create custom
blogs with Jekyll update the content with ease and reach out to your readers with minimal
effort. Because you've built your blog yourself you'll know exactly how each component works
and you won't be dependent on an admin panel to maintain it. Creating Blogs with Jekyll equips
you with the knowledge to create an elegantly designed blog and scale it to capture more
readers. Recapture the magic of writing by creating great content and use an easy workflow in
Jekyll to maintain it for blogging. Do new things and write about them in style with Jekyll.
Takes you through building a fully functional blog from scratch using Jekyll Provides a fun way
to work on a side-projectand integrate cutting edge web technologies Teaches you how to update
and maintain your awesome blog Jekyll is a simple secure and very low maintenance blog engine
that converts naturally written content in markdown into a beautiful and minimal blog. It
allows you to focus on content creation and expressing yourself instead of spending all your
time updating the plugins and maintaining the database. Jekyll does not rely on a database as a
backend so your blog will be far more secure and reliable than any traditional blogging engines
such as WordPress. We live in a day and age where short attention spans make it very difficult
to expose a reader to interesting content. What better way to capture a reader's attention and
retain viewers by captivating them by your own unique style and taste? Jekyll allows the
content to shine with minimal distractions and a greater focus on the content and easy sharing
of the content. What You'll Learn Choose a base theme appropriate for your style and
development Integrate various web technologies that will work well together and enhance your
blog Automate social sharing components and comments workflow Make adjustments to themes views
and styles of blog posts Update any of the modular components of the blog and integrate new
technologies Implement Jekyll and deploying static websites for future projects Who This Book
Is For The developer who is ready to move beyond the complexities of maintaining a content
management system by creating their own unique blog in their own style. It's for the project
manager tired of spending all their time editing their blog on the admin panel and updating the
content management system. Creating Blogs with Jekyll is an excellent choice for new developers
to start blogging because of the simplicity of Jekyll's theming layer and writing workflow.
It's anexcellent choice for the web developer wanting to build their blog from scratch and
expand their knowledge of higher level web technologies.
