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authorGravatar Barry Clark <barry@barryclark.co> 2014-06-11 08:52:43 -0400
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### Step 1) Fork Jekyll Now to your User Repository
-Fork this repo, then rename the repository to yourgithubusername.github.io.
+Fork this repo, then rename the repository to yourgithubusername.github.io.
-Your Jekyll blog will then be live at that URL: <http://yourgithubusername.github.io> (it's generally live immediately, but can occasionally take up to 10 minutes)
+Your Jekyll blog will often be viewable immediately at <http://yourgithubusername.github.io> (if it's not, you can force it to build by completing step 2)
![Step 1](/images/step1.gif "Step 1")
-### Step 2) Customize your site
+### Step 2) Customize and view your site
Enter your site name, description, avatar and many other options by editing the _config.yml file. You can easily turn on Google Analytics tracking, Disqus commenting and social icons here too.
-> There are 2 different ways that you can make changes to your blog's files from here onwards. Feel free to pick whichever suits you best:
+Making a change to _config.yml (or any file in your repository) will force GitHub Pages to rebuild your site. After making a change your updates will be viewable a few seconds later at <http://yourgithubusername.github.io>
+
+> There are 2 different ways that you can make changes to your blog's files:
> 1. Edit files within your new username.github.io repository in the browser at GitHub.com (shown below)
> 2. Clone down your repository and make updates locally, then push them to your GitHub repository