Setting up my Website with GitHub Pages and Jekyll

I was inspired to migrate my old blog from Blogger to GitHub Pages — thanks Nicky!

Step-By-Step

Setting up this website was pretty easy to do. I followed GitHub’s instructions:

1. Create a repo, which contains the code (HTML, etc.) that GitHub will host on their end.
2. Set up a publishing source. I chose the main branch of my repo.
3. Install Jekyll on my local machine. Jekyll is a software that makes static site building easy and sleek (check out this video for a quick overview of Jekyll). I decided to use Jekyll because
   • GitHub recommended it;
   • Writing markdown is easier than writing HTML;
   • There are a lot of fun templates to choose from.
4. Initialize my existing repo with all the Jekyll stuff.
5. Customize the website with links to LinkedIn and GitHub, posts like this one, etc.

That’s really all there is to it! Next, I’ll migrate all of my old blog posts to this site (and update them using Jekyll’s format).