Learning to write blog posts, by writing a blog post
Learning to write blog posts, by writing a blog post
this will be the first blog post I create! i will be using this blog to document my progress learning cybersecurity and technology as I have a large interest in these fields, and the first step to doing that is actually setting up the blog
Jekyll
for this blog, I will be using jekyll hosted on github pages, which is completely free! i followed this tutorial from chads blog, and used the jekyll template to create a repository! https://chadbaldwin.net/2021/03/14/how-to-build-a-sql-blog.html
Github pages
Github pages is a service offered by github, that allows you to host your own static website on github for free! To create a github pages website, you must create a new repository on your github account using the same name as your github, plus .github.io! Github will automatically handle deploying your pages to the internet whenever you make a change For example, to create my github pages I created a new repository named
glacier-cybertech.github.io
this will be the same url as the website it creates!
Configuring the blog
now that the blog is created, it should appear at (your-username).github.io ! however, the currently blog is just a default template, so we need to configure it! To configure the basic information, we go into the _config.yml file, where we can change things such as the name, description, and theme of our blog! i also went into the index.md file, which will be the main page for my blog site, and copied over the readme.md file i made for my github profile
now my blog is configured and working and i can write .md files in the posts directory to add a post!