About Jekyll

Jekyll “is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.” which is also used by GitHub Pages. It took me a bit to figure out how to make URLs within the site work, see below.

Jekyll uses Maruku, which is a superset of Markdown.

To start the server locally, I run

jekyll serve --watch

Links

• Jekyll
• GitHub Pages Help
• Some more tipps on that
• Configuration

Move the blog

https://www.google.de/search?q=jekyll+blog+template&oq=jekyll+blog+template&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3j62l2.4530&sugexp=chrome,mod=10&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

URL fiddling

• How to handle baseurl correctly

Use baseurl</h3>

If you are creating project pages, every url has to be prefixed with the project name, e.g:

<a href="/myproject"></a>

It can even be made configurable:

<a href=""></a>

Create _config.yml with the following content:

baseurl: /test

Override this with Jekyll’s --base-url [url] command line switch locally if you like so (e.g. to serve from the root).