Jekyll Template

Use this template and expand on it if you want to create a Jekyll webpage.

1. The easiest way that I found to work with Jekyll pages is to use the Jekyll docker image. Start by pulling the image:

docker pull jekyll/jekyll

1. Now create your own repository by using this repository as a template. Click on the green Use this template button.
2. Clone the new repository to your harddrive. Let's say you clone it to /home/you/mywebsite.
3. To serve the website type the following in the command line:

docker run --rm --name jekyll --volume="/home/you/mywebsite:/srv/jekyll" --publish 4000:4000 jekyll/jekyll jekyll serve

4. You can now edit any of the files. As soon as you save the site will be rebuilt and you can view it on http://localhost:4000
5. Obviously you should replace all instances of /home/you/mywebsite with the name of the directory where you actually are saving the files.
6. Make sure you set the source branch for building GitHub pages to main. This can be done by clicking on Settings, i.e. Settings for the project and not for your GitHub account. Then, click on Pages. Look for the heading Source and select Branch:main. Save the change.