This is my first post for my new Jekyll site. This file is located in the _posts directory.

At the time of this writing, I am using the default minima theme, which is not very pretty, but by the time anyone browses here and reads this post, I will have learned how to customize my github pages theme with something a little prettier.

So far I have learned that Jekyll requires me to create new posts in the following format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP

Where YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers, and MARKUP is the file extension representing the format used in the file. After that, you include the necessary front matter.

Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Susan')
#=> prints 'Hi, Susan' to STDOUT.

I’m really enthused about Jekyll. I’ll be checking out the Jekyll docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. There is even a support group where I can ask questions, on Jekyll Talk.