Jekyll is a static site generator that’s perfect for GitHub hosted blogs.
Jekyll Now makes it easier to create a Jekyll blog, by eliminating a lot of the up front setup.
✓ Command-line free fork-first workflow, using GitHub.com to create, customize and post to your blog
✓ Fully responsive and mobile optimized base theme
✓ Sass/Coffeescript support using Jekyll 2.0
✓ Free hosting on your GitHub Pages user site
✓ Markdown blogging
✓ Syntax highlighting
✓ Disqus commenting
✓ Google Analytics integration
✓ SVG social icons for your footer
✓ 3 http requests, including your avatar
✘ No installing dependancies
✘ No need to set up local development
✘ No configuring plugins
✘ No need to spend time on theming
✘ More time to code other things … wait ✓!
Quick Start walkthrough on the Jekyll Now GitHub repository.
This is a demo of all styled elements in Jekyll Now.
View the markdown used to create this post.
This is a paragraph, it’s surrounded by whitespace. Next up are some headers, they’re heavily influenced by GitHub’s markdown style.
A link to Jekyll Now. A big ass literal link http://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/
An image, located within /images
Inline markup styles:
code()
BlockquoteNested Blockquote
Syntax highlighting can be used with triple backticks, like so:
/* Some pointless Javascript */ var rawr = ["r", "a", "w", "r"];
Use two trailing spaces
on the right
to create linebreak tags
Finally, horizontal lines