Learn to create your own blog using the Jekyll static site generator. You'll start with a simple template, add new features to it, automate any maintenance, attach social sharing, and begin writing. By the end of Creating Blogs with Jekyll, you will be able to create custom blogs with Jekyll, update the content with ease, and reach out to your readers with minimal effort. Because you've built your blog yourself, you'll know exactly how each component works, and you won't be dependent on an admin panel to maintain it.

Creating Blogs with Jekyll equips you with the knowledge to create an elegantly designed blog and scale it to capture more readers. Recapture the magic of writing by creating great content and use an easy workflow in Jekyll to maintain it for blogging. Do new things and write about them in style with Jekyll.

• Takes you through building a fully functional blog from scratch using Jekyll
• Provides a fun way to work on a side-project and integrate cutting edge web technologies
• Teaches you how to update and maintain your awesome blog

Vikram Dhillon is currently a research fellow in the Institute of Simulation and Training, at University of Central Florida. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Central Florida, where his main focus was bioinformatics. He has published a few scientific papers on computational genomics. He has worked as a software and business development coach at the Blackstone Launchpad to mentor young entrepreneurs and startups through the process of building technology products. He was previously funded by the National Science Foundation through the Innovation Corps program to study customer discovery and apply it to commercialize high-risk startup ideas. He is a member of the Linux Foundation and stays very involved in open source projects and initiatives for the past several years. He often speaks at local conferences and meetups about programming, design, security and entrepreneurship. He currently lives in Orlando and writes a technology focused blog at opsbug.com.

1. Static Web.- 2. Web 2.0.- 3. Static Site Generators.- 4. Fundamentals of Version Control.- 5. Fundamentals of Style.- 6. Fundamentals of Jekyll.- 7. Blog-awareness.- 8. Git It Done.- 9. Photo Blogging.- 10. Open Debates.- 11. Open Research.- 12. Open Healthcare.- 13. Open Jekyll?.- Appendix.