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Create Static Sites with Jekyll And GitHub Pages
Rating: 4.1 out of 5(79 ratings)
1,683 students
Created byAwesome Inc
Last updated 3/2014
English

What you'll learn

  • Install the Jekyll software
  • Create a basic Jekyll blog or website on your local machine
  • Use GitHub Pages to host your Jekyll-generated site for free
  • Migrate from your existing Wordpress blog or site using jekyll-import

Course content

7 sections19 lectures1h 15m total length
  • Why Jekyll and Github Pages2:54
  • Popular websites powered by Jekyll2:30
  • Differences between Jekyll and CMS3:34
  • Advantages to Jekyll

Requirements

  • Computer with shell/terminal access
  • Basic experience with a Command Line Interface (create & change directories)
  • Text editor
  • Basic front-end web development experience (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • Basic Git experience (commit, clone, pull, push)

Description

Jekyll is the world's most popular static-site generator. This enables web developers to use many of the features of server-side Content Management Systems (like templates, themes, and blog-awareness) while taking advantage of the speed, security, and simplicity of static sites. Plus, this mighty little Ruby script lives on both your computer and on GitHub's servers, which means you get super-fast hosting that's only a `git push` away, and free for you and all your collaborators!

Who this course is for:

  • Web developers who want to learn how to use the most popular static site generator
  • Wordpress developers and site admins who want to improve speed and reduce complexity for basic sites
  • Software developers (particularly Rubyists) who want to blog they way they code (with Git)
  • Open-source software maintainers who want to create landing pages for their GitHub-hosted projects