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Static Websites with Jekyll

by Ryan Irelan

This course walks you through the basics of building a website with Jekyll. We start by walking through how Jekyll works, installing Jekyll, and then, piece-by-piece, we build a basic content site. At the end, we learn how to deploy a Jekyll site to Github Pages.

What you'll learn

Jekyll is a static site generator that takes template and content files and outputs a completely static site. It requires no database or special server software. That means your content isn't locked up in a database schema you don't know or a CMS you don't understand. You can run Jekyll on any server that supports serving static HTML, CSS, and image files -- so, pretty much anywhere! This course walks you through the basics of building a website with Jekyll. We start by walking through how Jekyll works, installing Jekyll and then, piece-by-piece, we build a basic content site. At the end, we learn how to deploy a Jekyll site to Github Pages.

About the author

Ryan is the founder of Mijingo and former Vice President of Technology at Happy Cog, one of the premiere web design agencies, where he helped manage web projects for some of the most prominent brands in the world. Ryan has authored two books and numerous video courses for web designers and developers.

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