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# Jekyll Now
Jekyll Now is an effort to make it easier to create your Jekyll blog by eliminating a lot of the up front setup (particularly the frustrating bits!).
- No need to touch the command line
- No need to install/configure ruby, rvm/rbenv, ruby gems (my favorite part!)
- No need to install runtime dependancies like markdown processors, Pygments, etc
- No cleanup, you can simply delete your repository if you don't like it
In just a couple of minutes you'll be set up with a blog like this one - [**Theme Demo**](http://jekyllnow.com).
## 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 can then immediately be viewed at that URL.
### Step 2) Customize your site
Enter your site name, description, avatar and many other options by editing the _config.yml file. In seconds you can add in social icons, Google Analytics tracking and Disqus commenting here too!
### Step 3) Publish your first blog post
Edit the Hello World markdown file in /_posts/ to publish your first blog post.
To add additional posts you can hit the + icon in the /_posts/ folder 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:
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## 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
✓ RSS feed and Sitemap.xml good to go
✓ Google Analytics integration
✓ SVG social icons for your footer
✓ Speed - only 3 http requests, including your avatar
✓ Emoji! :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
✘ No setting up hosting
✘ More time to code other things! ... wait that's a ✓
## Questions? Suggestions?
[Open an Issue](https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/issues/new) and let's chat!
## Wanna 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
- [SVG icons](https://github.com/neilorangepeel/Free-Social-Icons) are by Neil Orange Peel, the they're beautiful.
- [Joel Glovier](http://joelglovier.com/writing/) for some of his great Jekyll articles—I used feed.xml and sitemap.xml
- [Jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll), duh! Thanks to it's creators and contributors.
- Code/Design reviews, thanks to X, Y, Z.
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