• Free
• Easy to install (No server or ssl cert needed)
• Static Page (Fast)

1. First of all, Github let you to create a static website for you and also your projects, i.e. Github Pages.

2. Github Pages has an embedded web engine called JekyII to let you build your blog on Github Pages.

3. What does JekyII do or support:

   • Provide you a convient architecture to manage your sites, for example, you can set mostly all the site param in 1 .yaml file.
   • Act as an server to serve your site.
   • Support Liquid web template, i.e. load and pass parameter to the template.
   • Render your blog content based on Markdown syntax.
   • Support theme so possible to build an elagant webpage quickly.

Tips for you:

Just simply fork or clone the preoject mmistakes/minimal-mistakes. Although it is a theme, it has evrything to set up your site.

There is no embedded text editor like WordPress, but you don't need to learn or write the html code.

• A simple guide by Github
• Master Google
• A simple cheatsheet table

A better jeckyII doc

Page and post share the same structure i.e. yaml meta data + content

A web page = layout + _post / (_page + _include file)

If the extension is. md, the content can have a markdwon processing.

To edit the navi bar, go to /_data/navigation.yml

/docs is another deploy directory, you can use it to build a demo site.

To enable google analytics, simply input the track id in _config.yml when using Minimal Mistakes