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The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Barry Clark

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of

this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in

the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to

use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of

the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,

subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all

copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS

FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR

COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER

IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN

CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

**Jekyll** is a static site generator that's perfect for GitHub hosted blogs ([Jekyll Repository](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll))

**Jekyll Now** makes it easier to create your Jekyll blog, by eliminating a lot of the up front setup.

- You don't need to touch the command line

- You don't need to install/configure ruby, rvm/rbenv, ruby gems :relaxed:

- You don't need to install runtime dependancies like markdown processors, Pygments, etc

- If you're on Windows, this will make setting up Jekyll a lot easier

- It's easy to try out, you can just delete your forked repository if you don't like it

In a few minutes you'll be set up with a minimal, responsive blog like the one below giving you more time to spend on writing epic blog posts!


Fork this repo, then rename the repository to yourgithubusername.github.io.

Your Jekyll blog will often be viewable immediately at <http://yourgithubusername.github.io> (if it's not, you can often force it to build by completing step 2)


Enter your site name, description, avatar and many other options by editing the _config.yml file. You can easily turn on Google Analytics tracking, Disqus commenting and social icons here too.

Making a change to _config.yml (or any file in your repository) will force GitHub Pages to rebuild your site with jekyll. Your rebuilt site will be viewable a few seconds later at <http://yourgithubusername.github.io> - if not, give it ten minutes as GitHub suggests and it'll appear soon


Edit `/_posts/2014-3-3-Hello-World.md` to publish your first blog post. This [Markdown Cheatsheet](http://www.jekyllnow.com/Markdown-Style-Guide/) might come in handy.


1. Install Jekyll and plug-ins in one fell swoop. `gem install github-pages` This mirrors the plug-ins used by GitHub Pages on your local machine including Jekyll, Sass, etc.

2. Clone down your fork `git clone git@github.com:yourusername/yourusername.github.io.git`

3. Serve the site and watch for markup/sass changes `jekyll serve`

4. View your website at http://0.0.0.0:4000

5. Commit any changes and push everything to the master branch of your GitHub user repository. GitHub Pages will then rebuild and serve your website.

I've created a more detailed walkthrough, [**Build A Blog With Jekyll And GitHub Pages**](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/01/build-blog-jekyll-github-pages/) over at the Smashing Magazine website. Check it out if you'd like a more detailed walkthrough and some background on Jekyll. :metal:

It covers:

- A more detailed walkthrough of setting up your Jekyll blog

- Common issues that you might encounter while using Jekyll

- Importing from Wordpress, using your own domain name, and blogging in your favorite editor

- Theming in Jekyll, with Liquid templating examples

- A quick look at Jekyll 2.0’s new features, including Sass/Coffeescript support and Collections

✓ Command-line free _fork-first workflow_, using GitHub.com to create, customize and post to your blog

✓ Fully responsive and mobile optimized base theme (**[Theme Demo](http://jekyllnow.com)**)

✓ Sass/Coffeescript support using Jekyll 2.0

✓ Free hosting on your GitHub Pages user site

✓ Markdown blogging

✓ Syntax highlighting

✓ Disqus commenting

✓ Google Analytics integration

✓ SVG social icons for your footer

✓ 3 http requests, including your avatar

✘ No installing dependancies

✘ No need to set up local development

✘ No configuring plugins

✘ No need to spend time on theming

✘ More time to code other things ... wait ✓!

[Open an Issue](https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/issues/new) and let's chat!

You can use the [Quick Start](https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now#quick-start) workflow with other themes that are set up to be forked too! Here are some of my favorites:

- [Hyde](https://github.com/poole/hyde) by MDO

- [Lanyon](https://github.com/poole/lanyon) by MDO

- [mojombo.github.io](https://github.com/mojombo/mojombo.github.io) by Tom Preston-Werner

- [Left](https://github.com/holman/left) by Zach Holman

- [Minimal Mistakes](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes) by Michael Rose

- [Skinny Bones](https://github.com/mmistakes/skinny-bones-jekyll) by Michael Rose

- [Jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll) - Thanks to its creators, contributors and maintainers.

- [SVG icons](https://github.com/neilorangepeel/Free-Social-Icons) - Thanks, Neil Orange Peel. They're beautiful.

- [Solarized Light Pygments](https://gist.github.com/edwardhotchkiss/2005058) - Thanks, Edward.

- [Joel Glovier](http://joelglovier.com/writing/) - Great Jekyll articles. I used Joel's feed.xml in this repository.

- [David Furnes](https://github.com/dfurnes), [Jon Uy](https://github.com/jonuy), [Luke Patton](https://github.com/lkpttn) - Thanks for the design/code reviews.

- [Bart Kiers](https://github.com/bkiers), [Florian Simon](https://github.com/vermluh), [Henry Stanley](https://github.com/henryaj), [Hun Jae Lee](https://github.com/hunjaelee), [Javier Cejudo](https://github.com/javiercejudo), [Peter Etelej](https://github.com/etelej), [Ben Abbott](https://github.com/jaminscript), [Ray Nicholus](https://github.com/rnicholus), [Erin Grand](https://github.com/eringrand), [Léo Colombaro](https://github.com/LeoColomb), [Dean Attali](https://github.com/daattali), [Clayton Errington](https://github.com/cjerrington) - Thanks for your [fantastic contributions](https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/commits/master) to the project!

Issues and Pull Requests are greatly appreciated. If you've never contributed to an open source project before I'm more than happy to walk you through how to create a pull request.

You can start by [opening an issue](https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/issues/new) describing the problem that you're looking to resolve and we'll go from there.

I want to keep Jekyll Now as minimal as possible. Every line of code should be one that's useful to 90% of the people using it. Please bear that in mind when submitting feature requests. If it's not something that most people will use, it probably won't get merged. :guardsman:

name: Your Name

description: Web Developer from Somewhere

avatar: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/master/images/jekyll-logo.png

footer-links:

dribbble:

email:

facebook:

flickr:

github: barryclark/jekyll-now

instagram:

linkedin:

pinterest:

rss: # just type anything here for a working RSS icon, make sure you set the "url" above!

twitter: jekyllrb

stackoverflow: # your stackoverflow profile, e.g. "users/50476/bart-kiers"

youtube: # channel/<your_long_string> or user/<user-name>

disqus:

google_analytics:

url:

baseurl: ""

markdown: redcarpet

highlighter: pygments

permalink: /:title/

version: v1.1.0

sass:

style: :expanded # You might prefer to minify using :compressed

gems:

- jekyll-sitemap # Create a sitemap using the official Jekyll sitemap gem

exclude:

- Gemfile

- Gemfile.lock

- LICENSE

- README.md

{% if site.google_analytics %}

<!-- Google Analytics -->

<script>

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){

(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),

m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)

})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', '{{ site.google_analytics }}', 'auto');

ga('send', 'pageview', {

'page': '{{ page.url }}',

'title': '{{ page.title | replace: "'", "\\'" }}'

});

</script>

<!-- End Google Analytics -->

{% endif %}

{% if site.disqus %}

<div class="comments">

<div id="disqus_thread"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">

var disqus_shortname = '{{ site.disqus }}';

(function() {

var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;

dsq.src = '//' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';

(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);

})();

</script>

<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>

{% endif %}

<meta charset="utf-8" />

<meta content='text/html; charset=utf-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'>

<meta http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible' content='IE=edge'>

<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0'>

{% if page.excerpt %}

<meta name="description" content="{{ page.excerpt| strip_html }}" />

<meta property="og:description" content="{{ page.excerpt| strip_html }}" />

{% else %}

<meta name="description" content="{{ site.description }}">

<meta property="og:description" content="{{ site.description }}" />

{% endif %}

<meta name="author" content="{{ site.name }}" />

{% if page.title %}

<meta property="og:title" content="{{ page.title }}" />

<meta property="twitter:title" content="{{ page.title }}" />

{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.dribbble %}<a href="http://dribbble.com/{{ site.footer-links.dribbble }}"><i class="svg-icon dribbble"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.email %}<a href="mailto:{{ site.footer-links.email }}"><i class="svg-icon email"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.facebook %}<a href="http://facebook.com/{{ site.footer-links.facebook }}"><i class="svg-icon facebook"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.flickr %}<a href="http://flickr.com/{{ site.footer-links.flickr }}"><i class="svg-icon flickr"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.github %}<a href="http://github.com/{{ site.footer-links.github }}"><i class="svg-icon github"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.instagram %}<a href="http://instagram.com/{{ site.footer-links.instagram }}"><i class="svg-icon instagram"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.linkedin %}<a href="http://linkedin.com/in/{{ site.footer-links.linkedin }}"><i class="svg-icon linkedin"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.pinterest %}<a href="http://pinterest.com/{{ site.footer-links.pinterest }}"><i class="svg-icon pinterest"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.rss %}<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/feed.xml"><i class="svg-icon rss"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.twitter %}<a href="http://twitter.com/{{ site.footer-links.twitter }}"><i class="svg-icon twitter"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.stackoverflow %}<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/{{ site.footer-links.stackoverflow }}"><i class="svg-icon stackoverflow"></i></a>{% endif %}

{% if site.footer-links.youtube %}<a href="http://youtube.com/{{ site.footer-links.youtube }}"><i class="svg-icon youtube"></i></a>{% endif %}

<head>

<title>{% if page.title %}{{ page.title }} – {% endif %}{{ site.name }} – {{ site.description }}</title>

{% include meta.html %}

<!--[if lt IE 9]>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/style.css" />

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{{ site.name }} - {{ site.description }}" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/feed.xml" />

<!-- Created with Jekyll Now - http://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now -->

</head>

<body>

<div class="wrapper-masthead">

<div class="container">

<header class="masthead clearfix">

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/" class="site-avatar"><img src="{{ site.avatar }}" /></a>

<div class="site-info">

<h1 class="site-name"><a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/">{{ site.name }}</a></h1>

<p class="site-description">{{ site.description }}</p>

</div>

<nav>

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/">Blog</a>

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/about">About</a>

</nav>

</header>

</div>

</div>

<div id="main" role="main" class="container">

{{ content }}

</div>

<div class="wrapper-footer">

<div class="container">

<footer class="footer">

{% include svg-icons.html %}

</footer>

</div>

</div>

{% include analytics.html %}

</body>

---

layout: default

---

<article class="page">

<h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>

<div class="entry">

{{ content }}

</div>

---

layout: default

---

<article class="post">

<h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>

<div class="entry">

{{ content }}

</div>

<div class="date">

Written on {{ page.date | date: "%B %e, %Y" }}

</div>

{% include disqus.html %}