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# Jekyll Now
**Jekyll** is static site generator that's perfect for GitHub hosted blogs ([Jekyll Repository](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll))
**Jekyll Now** makes it easier to create your Jekyll blog, by eliminating a lot of the up front setup.
- You don't need to touch the command line
- You don't need to install/configure ruby, rvm/rbenv, ruby gems :relaxed:
- You don't need to install runtime dependancies like markdown processors, Pygments, etc
- It's easy to try out, you can just delete your forked repository if you don't like it
In a few minutes you'll be set up with a minimal, responsive blog ([**Theme Demo**](http://jekyllnow.com)) giving you more time to spend on making your blog awesome!
## Quick Start
### Step 1) Fork Jekyll Now to your User Repository
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)
### Step 2) Customize 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!
### Step 3) Publish your first blog post
Navigate to the posts folder in the root of this repository and edit `/_posts/2014-3-3-Hello-World.md` to publish your first blog post. This [Markdown Cheatsheet](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet) might come in handy.
To add additional posts you can hit the + icon in `/_posts/` to create new content. Just make sure to include the [front-matter](http://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/) block at the top of each new blog post and make sure the post's filename is in this format: year-month-day-title.md
## Moar!
I've created a more detailed walkthrough of [**Getting Started With Jekyll**](#), check it out if you'd like a more detailed walkthrough and some background on Jekyll. :metal:
It covers:
- A more detailed walkthrough of setting up your Jekyll blog
- Common issues that you might encounter while using Jekyll
- Importing from Wordpress, using your own domain name, and blogging in your favorite editor
- Theming in Jekyll, with Liquid templating examples
- A quick look at Jekyll 2.0’s new features, including Sass/Coffeescript support and Collections
## Jekyll Now Features
✓ Command-line free _fork-first workflow_, using GitHub.com to create, customize and post to your blog
✓ Fully responsive and mobile optimized base theme (**[Theme Demo](http://jekyllnow.com)**)
✓ Sass/Coffeescript support using Jekyll 2.0
✓ Free hosting on your GitHub Pages user site
✓ Markdown blogging
✓ Syntax highlighting
✓ Disqus commenting
✓ Google Analytics integration
✓ SVG social icons for your footer
✓ Speed - only 3 http requests, including your avatar
✓ Emoji in blog posts! :sparkling_heart: :sparkling_heart: :sparkling_heart:
✘ No installing dependancies
✘ No need to set up local development
✘ No configuring plugins
✘ No need to spend time on theming
✘ More time to code other things ... wait ✓!
## Questions? Suggestions?
[Open an Issue](https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/issues/new) and let's chat!
## Get new themes
If you'd like me to let you know when I release a new theme, just [drop me your email for updates](http://getresponse.com). I'm currently working on a personal portfolio site Jekyll Now theme.
## Credits
- [Jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll) - Thanks to it's creators, contributors and maintainers.
- [SVG icons](https://github.com/neilorangepeel/Free-Social-Icons) - Thanks, Neil Orange Peel, the they're beautiful.
- [Joel Glovier](http://joelglovier.com/writing/) - Great Jekyll articles. I used Joel's feed.xml and sitemap.xml in this repository.
- Design & Code reviews - Thanks to [David Furnes](https://github.com/dfurnes), [Jon Uy](https://github.com/jonuy),
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