Build your website with Jekyll

Why you need a personal website?

Blog everything you like and share them with your friends
Show your products online and extend your business
Make money with your website by adertisement or sell your own products (virtual or non-virtual)

About Jekyll

Jekyll is a simple, extendable, static site generator. You give it text written in your favorite markup language and it churns through layouts to create a static website. Throughout that process you can tweak how you want the site URLs to look, what data gets displayed in the layout, and more.

Build your website (on Windows, it should be similar for other platforms):

Download and install ruby

Go to Ruby official website
Select a proper version, e.g. Ruby+Devkit X.X.X (x64) installer
Install it by click Next …

Note: for other platforms, follow the Guide on this page

Install bundler

Click Windows Start button (on the most bottom left)
Input cmd.exe and Enter to run it
On the popup window, input and run gem install bundler
Don’t close this window, we’ll use it again later

Download a Jekyll theme and build it

Go to the page mundana-theme-jekyll
Click Clone or download > Download ZIP
Unzip the downloaded file to a folder, assume that it is d:\mundana-theme-jekyll
Open and edit the file d:\mundana-theme-jekyll\Gemfile
Add gem 'tzinfo' to the file at the end

On the opened cmd.exe window, input and run

d:
cd d:\mundana-theme-jekyll
bundle install

When the installations are done, build and run the website using the following command
```
bundle exec jekyll server
```
On your Browser, such as Chrome, open the website http://127.0.0.1:4000/mundana-theme-jekyll screenshot 01 02 03

Customize the website as you like

~ TBD ~

Host your website

bundle exec jekyll build to build your website, and now everything you need is in the folder d:\mundana-theme-jekyll\_site, and what you need to do next is to upload the contents in this folder to a website hosting.

There’re many website hosting provider, you can select one and host your website on it. e.g. bluehost.com is a great one.

Alternative, if you’re familiar with building up a virtual machine of Linux or Windows (VPS), you can select linode.com to run a web server on it.

To Be Done for more details.