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# Jekyll Now

_Create your Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line._
Create your Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.

I wrote a more detailed walkthrough including details of a lot of the workflow benefits and intro to Jekyll here: [Getting Started With Jekyll](#). You can use the Setup guide below to try Jekyll Now out fast.

### Setup

##### Step 1) Fork Jekyll Now

![Step 1](/images/step1.gif "Step 1")
I love starting out by forking first as you can get a feel for what Jekyll is like _extremely quickly_. You don't have to set up a local development environment, install dependancies and figure out how the Jekyll build process works to get your site up and running.

![Step 1](/images/step1.gif "Step 1")

1. Hit the fork button at the top right of the repository to fork a copy to your GitHub account.
2. Click the Settings button on your new forked repository and change the repository name to yourusername.github.io (ensure that yourusername is replaced with your GitHub username).
3. Your site should be live immediately! (although it can take up to 10 minutes)

##### Step 2) Customize your site

1. Walk
2. Through
3. The --- Host on your GitHub Pages User repo
4. Video ---
You can now edit your site name, gravatar and other options using the _config.yml file.

##### Step 2) Personalize your blog
![Step 2](/images/step2.gif "Step 2")

##### Step 3) Publish your first blog post

##### Step 3) Publish your first post
Your site is customized and looking great. Now you just have to write that epic blog post!

![Step 3](/images/step3.gif "Step 3")

1. Edit the Hello World post in the _posts folder, deleting the placeholder content and entering your own.
2. Change the filename to include today's date and the title of your post. Jekyll requires posts to be named year-month-day-title.md
3. Update the Title. Those variables at the top of the blog post are called front-matter. In this case they specify which layout to use and the title of the blog post. There are [additional front-matter variables](http://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/) too, like permalink, tags, and category.
4. You can also create new blog posts without setting up local development, you can just hit the + icon in the _posts folder to create new content. Just remember to format the filename correctly and to include the front matter block to ensure that the file gets processed by Jekyll.

## Features

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Follow the latest [GitHub Pages Custom Domain Guide](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-pages) to set up your custom domain name. I've created the CNAME file already, so that you can easily edit it within the repository.

## Looking for a more in depth walkthrough?

Check out my article [Getting Started With Jekyll](#).

## Any questions?

[Open an Issue](https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/issues/new) and let's chat!
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