Creating This Site!

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I made this site for fun as a test to myself. I have learned the jekyll interface from scratch and used it to generate the static pages you are viewing. Using jekyll and hosting through GitHub Pages have both been pretty intuitive, here are the steps I took if you want to do it yourself:

  1. Downloaded Jekyll following docs
  2. Followed Quickstart and launched localhost starting website
  3. Examined interface to understand how to use it – Notice the intuitive use of markdown and file structure
  4. Set up Visual Studio Code and uploaded the Quickstart to Github
  5. Set up GitHub Pages
  6. Found a theme I liked – alembic – and followed their extended interface
  7. Launch and Continued Working

Check out the Jekyll docs for the basics of building a similar website. Also see Jekyll’s GitHub repo.