Jekyll is a static site generator that turns your plain text into beautiful static websites and blogs. It can be used for a documentation site, blog, event site, or really any website you want. It's fast, secure, simple, and open source. It's also the same site generator I use to maintain my open source documentation site. Today we'll install and configure Jekyll with the Chirpy theme. We'll configure the site, create some pages with Markdown, autobuild it with a GitHub action, and even host it on GitHub Pages for FREE. If you don't want to host in the cloud, we'll show you how to host it on your own server or even in Docker.

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00:00 – What to look for on a website
02:38 – Exclusive for new customers – Get a free 256 GB SSD at Micro Center
03:23 – Creating our Jekyll site
06:20 – Customizing our site
09:19 – Creating content in Markdown
14:34 – FREE hosting of our Jekyll site on GitHub
18:53 – Self-hosting our Jekyll site
21:20 – Stream Highlight – /“There are days when I wear pants…/”

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