Thinking about creating your own blog or website but don’t want to use JavaScript, WordPress or blogger. You want something else. There you got Jekyll, it will help you create yourself static website in a day and you don’t need any prerequisites for that. Even better Jekyll has free hosting with GitHub pages. You are now really getting interested and want to know more about it, don’t worry I have attached the link of Jekyll and GitHub pages .

You went through the above links and want to create a static website, and I will guide you through it.

So, lets begin

Step 1 – Create yourself a repository in GitHub

Head over to GitHub and click on new green button. There in the create repository button be carefull to write exactly your username otherwise it won’t work.

Creating Repository

Congratulation you have now created your websites repository in GitHub.

Step 2 - Installing jekyll on your computer and running your website locally

I have shown you on Windows. For other operating systems steps may be a bit different. We now need to go to rubyinstaller and install ruby with devkit which suits your computer best (it’s going to be in bold). Double click on rubyinstaller where it is downloaded. Keep clicking on the next button and then at the end finish button. Now a new window will be opened where it will be written ruby installer for windows. Press on 1, 2 and 3 step by step.Then follow the instructions in the jekyll website .

Downloading jekyll

Now open the command promt to make sure everything got installed correctly for that give the following commands.

Cheking in command prompt

Now a stucture of your website is created. Which you can keep modifying.

Note: To create your own post go to _post file in your local reository and keep your blog in vscode in markdown there. You can refer to my github repository of this webite.

Step 3 - Hosting you website on github pages.

You need to install git locally, from here.

Now give the following commands in the command prompt in your local directory where jekyll files and folder are kept: Note: remove () these while typing on command prompt.

1.  git init
2.  git add .
3.  git commit -m "(Any comment you want to give)"  
4.  git remote add origin (link of your github repository)
5.  git push

Great, you have pushed all your files in GitHub. Go over to GitHub and you will find all your files which you have pushed. Now you can search your repository on internet and see your website running.

To know more about Jekyll read my next blog.