How To Build A Website | Github Pages | Jekyll | Template

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Build your own personal website for FREE! I will be utilizing Github pages with Jekyll. Github pages ties everything together and Jekyll is a static generator framework where it automates the task of coding html pages ready for consumers. You do NOT need a coding background to make your very own website!

🔗 My Links 🔗
Github:

Github Website: (Subject to change as I continue to update)

📓 Requirements 🧐
1) Get a Github account (You don’t need Github Pro)
Get git bash (unless your terminal already has git commands)
Create your github keys on your machine

- Run ridk install on the last stage of the installation wizard (this installs gem)
- Open a new terminal and run gem install Jekyll bundler
- Check if Jekyll has been installed by Jekyll -v

⭐ Popular Templates ⭐
1) Academic Pages (Student Theme)

2) Jekflix (A Netflix themed website)

3) Al-folio (A personal website theme)

⌛ Timeline ⌛
0:00 - How To Build Your Website
2:00 - Fork a Template & Github Page Standard
3:40 - Editing Template for Personal Website use
6:40 - Verify and Continue to Edit Template
8:38 - Deploy your Website

[Vampyricx]

I've watched this video so many times, every new page I make I come back to this video. Thank you so much for providing such a helpful guide!

[steffaniasierragalvis]

This video was soooo helpful!!! I was completely lost about how to add the jekyll repository to my own github page, and you explained it really clear. Thank you so much for your content!!

[yazmatazz]

Note that Jekyll at 1:47 should be jekyll

[richardspitzer]

Pretty helpful even for a non-SW engineer like myself. Only part, I didn't understand is the deployment part. I am working with another jekyll repo and it seems only thing I need to do is to git push instead of bin/deply --user command. In fact, I'm my repo, there is no github folder or bin folder. So, a little confused with this part.

[pablopudding]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. This saved me a lot of time.

[claudiap]

Doesn't look that is actually you talking😟

[rogueconomist]

Has anyone been able to successfully deploy this? This is way more complicated than it should be

[calebd]

Running into a libv8 mini_racer error. Syntax of gem 'wdm', '>= 0.1.0' matches yours. Bundle install gives mini_racer was resolved to 0.6.3 which depends on libv8 node. Appreciate any guidance you can provide. Great video

[neetxbo]

"Thank you so much for the great content. My question is, when I deploy it on GitHub, later, if I want to make changes, should I just make the changes on my local machine and deploy it again? Will the changes be integrated, or is there something else that needs to be done?

[debadritatalapatra]

Thanks for the awesome tutorial! Can I connect a back-end code to any of the front-end pages of al-folio? As in, run a code in the back-end and show a simple pictorial demonstration in the front-end?

[deadbeef-eiic]

Running into an issue. I follow your process and get to the point where you 'bundle install' and 'bundle exec jekyll serve'. All goes good but the locally hosted website isnt updated with my changes? I change my name, commited and pushed (verified it on my github) and its still the default confg.xml or splash page. Awesome video btw!

[ClaraL]

hi spencer, I have a weird problem with the Deploy step. When I try to run bin/deploy --user, nothing happens except a windows popup comes up asking which application I want to run

[MULLAIVENDANK]

what is config.yml . where to get that file

[plsdontbanmeagainyoulibtards]

when I *"$ bin/deploy --user"* I get *"bash: bin/deploy: No such file or directory"*

Do I need to be using a different command or am I missing something else? I'm not using the same template as you, but I did try the jekflix one and am getting the same issue. Thanks

[rfyloqq]

I followed you steps, but I can only see pictures on the website only on full screen, i'm wondering if you know why is it

[jennysun]

Would you try to fork the repo again and deploy? I've tried 100 times, and it doesn't work anymore. Thanks!

[bristowsoundsgood]

I followed everything here. When I try to deploy using Github Actions, I get an error to do with WDM. Saying it's not supported on my system, but I'm running Windows 11.

[klarachura]

This is probably just me struggling with Git in general, but when I run the final bin/deploy script, it tries to push to the alshedivat repo and not mine. I followed all the steps in the video, excluding the Windows-specific steps since I am on Linux. Where might I be going wrong?

[Anistuffs]

Is there a way to change where gem is installed in Windows 10 ??? Even though during the Ruby installation, I choose a folder without spaces, as it tells me to, gem keeps installing in a folder under my username which has a space in it.
And then gem just fails to install jekyll because it's running from a path with a space in it.
I just can't seem to find a way to not have gem install inside a folder under my username.

[kevinkuriakose]

hi, I'm quite new to git, and so I have been following your video for days on end to get my website up, but to no avail. So I am on a mac system, and while my site looks fantastic locally, works fine, all the links and everything is working fine, when I deploy it I am only getting the first page that too like an html, devoid of any of the formatting. Could you please suggest what I can do? I am not even getting any errors in deployment either (line to line just like yours).