Tutorial on Setting up a Personal Website with Jekyll & GitHub Pages

Event

Jekyll is a static site generator that can be used to create a custom website simply, efficiently, and for free of charge. In this session, you will learn to set up a Jekyll-based website and blog, install a basic theme, add customizations, and host it via GitHub Pages.

Video

Outline

Section 1: Jekyll / GitHub Pages Background
Section 2: Creating Your Site
Section 3: Hosting on GitHub Pages
Section 4: Customization Options

Resources

Lauren’s slides
IWD 1-minute video: https://youtu.be/Z81fx_Fa34o
scikit-learn blog: https://blog.scikit-learn.org
Reshama’s blog: https://reshamas.github.io
Lauren’s blog: https://laurburke.github.io

Section Timestamps of Video

00:00 Data Umbrella introduction by Reshama
03:50 Reshama introduces Lauren
05:15 Jekyll blog Presentation by Lauren
05:48 Intro & Agenda
06:12 Section 1: Background
06:15 Why create a personal website/blog?
07:24 What are Jekyll & GitHub Pages?
08:05 Why use Jekyll / GitHub Pages?
08:50 Section 2: Creating Your Site
08:53 Prerequisites
09:30 Install Jekyll
10:05 Create a New Jekyll Project
10:45 Run your site locally
11:16 What’s inside the project?
12:44 Updating Site Configuration
13:32 Section 3: Hosting on GitHub Pages
13:39 Initialize the Repository
14:15 Add the GitHub Pages Gem
14:48 Personal Access Tokens (PAT)
16:16 Push to GitHub
18:05 Section 4: Customization Options
18:13 1. Theme
21:04 2. Posts & Pages
28:46 3. Blog Settings
32:33 4. Other Customizations
34:46 – Q & A –

About the Speaker

Bio

Lauren Burke is a Data Scientist in the healthcare technology space. She began her data science career in the retail space, where she developed solutions across several areas, including supply chain, inventory management, and enterprise business. She recently transitioned into product data science after spending some time implementing forecasting solutions to support new and renewal business opportunities. Lauren is an active member of her local and larger tech communities. She is the Director of Operations of Women in Analytics, a member of TECH CORPS’ Regional Steering Committee, Vice-Chair of COSI’s Kinetic Emerging Leaders Board, and a member of the scikit-learn Communication Team.