About

Recently, I’ve been taking some baby steps to learn web architecture and development. A first step in this direction has been to explore Jekyll, which I learned about from a friend. Jekyll is a ruby app that can be used to quickly and cheaply spin up static web applications, with minimal software experience.

Jekyll has been a great place to start, because:

• It is a quick dev experience: there are many free templates out there that accommodate a wide range of use cases (just scroll through some of these examples to see)
  • Best Jekyll Themes
  • Jekyll Themes
• It is fast: no databases are involved
• It is also secure: no database means there’s nothing to hack
• It is cheap: again, no database means less operating costs, and in fact, you can host Jekyll blogs for free on GitHub, with two simple steps
  • Point your domain name at GitHub’s servers
  • Add your domain name to your GitHub repository

To any interested beginner out there, this blog costs me a total of $2.95 per annum - the cost of the domain name via namecheap.

This blog will simply serve as my ongoing notes and takeaways on learning Jekyll, in a Jekyll framework

Thanks @mdo for Lanyon