Setting up my blog

Understanding my needs

Blogging is not something that is new to me. I’ve been creating, customizing, and working with Wordpress blogs for a very long time. Jekyll , on the other hand is a completely different beast. Wordpress has tons of amazing features, some of which I had found very useful in the past (for example: creating highly dynamic pages for visitors to interact with the site). This blog will focus mainly on my thoughts and learnings as I progress through @gSchool. Therefore, I decided to go with Jekyll this time around. It is easily integrated with Github Pages, and there is a ton of documentation available on the web.

Setting up Jekyll

There could not have been an easier process than the one that I chose. I used jekyllbootstrap’s guide to set up my blog on Github Pages. It only took me about 10 minutes. Once it was set up on Github, I edited the config file to include my information. Anytime I want to add a post, all I need to do is rake post title="titlename" and then add, commit and push and it’s on my github page, ~10 minutes later.

Looking forward

There’s still a TON that I need to learn and things that I want to do to make this blog something that I’m proud of. Some of which are:

1. Learn YAML.
2. Set up analytics (Mixpanel, GA, etc).
3. Edit the theme / find a better one.
4. Write a blog post about gSchool (currently in my 4th week).