As the post title suggests, this is my first post for my Github pages. My intent with this page is to keep it as a very simple side blog for my programming activities.

So for this “Hello World” post, I will simply explain what I did to get this blog started in a matter of 5 minutes. The setup steps for Github pages using Jekyll were pretty straightforward and well documented in my opinion.

1. Log into your Github account and fork the Jekyll-Now original repo, then rename it as yourgithubusername.github.io

2. Next, Update your site name, avatar and other options using the _config.yml file in the root of your repository. The configuration file is commented out so very easy steps.

1. Then edit the first post to see how the changes are affected. You can also create new posts by simply creating a new .md file in the post. Just make sure to include the front-matter block at the top of each new blog post and make sure the post’s filename is in this format: year-month-day-title.md

That’s it!