The SILShack class blog - Fall 2013

So I didn't have any problems updating my website or adding a website thank goodness! I think I'm somehow getting progressively better at Github and I'm not a total complete fail at Github Command Line! WOHO! Anyways, here is my step by step process in creating a new Jekyll website from the command line:

1. So after I installed Jekyll, I then issued this command in the command line: jekyll new mysite. This created my site.

2. After Jekyll created this mysite/ folder, I needed to create a repository to which I can add files and change files on Github. I used git init to create a new repository.

3. I needed to check the status of my repository to make sure I did not commit it by using the command git status. (side note: this git status is super helpful because it has colors in the Git Command Line which helps me automatically know what hasn't been commmitted)

4. I then committed the additions, using git add . and then committing using git commit -m "Added my blank Jekyll site" which also added a commit message.

5. I then did jekyll serve --watch to see the changes on my local Jekyll server.

6. I renamed the default branch from master to gh-pages by using the command git branch -m master gh-pages.

7. After I checked the site to make sure it was okay on my local Jekyll server, I then added my new repository as a remote: git remote add origin https://github.com/leslieho/mysite and then I pushed the changes to the site: git push origin gh-pages

8. After doing all of this, I then updated config.yml file to add the base url information baseurl: /mysite and updated the index.html with my contact information.

Here's my screenshot: