In this post I want to describe how that blog works. I’ve discovered it a couple of days ago, but as I see it’s pretty awesome and lightweight. First, a quick overview: what is GitHub? At its core, GitHub is a platform where you can store and manage your source code using Git. But it has grown far beyond that. Today, GitHub offers a lot of cool features, one of which is GitHub Pages. This feature lets you publish content using Git and standard markup languages. So, let’s walk through the steps to create a blog like this one. I hope this guide proves helpful to others!

Here are the installation steps:

• Sign Up/In on GitHub
• Go to the Jekyll-now repository
• Fork it!
• Rename forked repository just like yourusername.github.io
• after that, edit _config.yml. File’s structure is simply enough, so no problem should be appeared.

• After that, go to Settings to check from which branch is site built. If you see something like:

  Your GitHub Pages site is currently being built from the master branch.

  than all OK. If not - select branch and press “Save”

• Now go to https://yourusername.github.io
• That’s it! You’re UP&Running!

Right. So, how to make a post?

First step is to clone your new repository:

git clone https://github.com/username/username.github.io.git
cd username.github.io

Great! Now you can make your first post! Just create new file inside posts folder, just like YYYY-M-D-filename.md

touch posts/2017-8-2-postname.md

Basically, this file could contain only the following information:

$ cat posts/2017-8-2-postname.md   # <--this is how you may see content of text file

---
layout: post
title: Post header, which is visible on a page
---
Hello world!

$ git add posts/2017-8-2-postname.md
$ git commit -m "Very first post"
$ git push   

Easy enough, right? So, now you can go to https://yourusername.github.io/postname and your post should be there.

What’s next?

Well, Now you can do what you want with your blog! Good idea is to add search and comments, tune fonts and colors and many more. But I have to admit, it’s pretty clear and convinient, to have post’s collection stored in .md format. Let’s see how it’ll be in the future.