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title: Creating a Personal Website with Jekyll
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author: cscherr
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date: 2024-04-11 21:30:00 +0200
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categories: [Hosting, Blogging]
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tags: [jekyll]
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---
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If you're someone like me and like to host various services, you might also want
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to have your own personal website. There are many approaches to this, for
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example you could use a <abbr title="Content Management System">CMS</abbr> like
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[WordPress](https://wordpress.org) or [ghost](https://ghost.org), you could use
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a static site generator like [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) (that's what GitHub
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Pages use) or you could program your own site if you want.
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I've tried a bit of all of them, but it never really worked for me. Eventually I
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landed on Jekyll, so this is also where you're reading this on now. To be honest,
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I don't have too much expertise on the topic, but I made it work, and a Blog
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needs posts.
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## Pros and Cons of Jekyll
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### Dead Simple
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Usage of Jekyll is really easy in my opinion. You kind of just write markdown
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files and add some front matter. That is if you're using a pre-made template
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of course, you can make it as complicated as you want, just note that Jekyll
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generates static sites, so no fancy server side computation.
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### A lot of modern themes
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There are a lot of modern and good-looking themes for Jekyll. At the time this
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post is written, cscherr.de uses [chirpy](https://github.com/cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy).
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A large collection of Jekyll themes can be found
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[here](http://jekyllthemes.org/) (note: this site does not use HTTPS for
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some reason).
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### Multilingual sucks
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With the chirpy theme at least, I couldn't get Multilingual content to work
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without going into the rabbit hole. You can select from a good amount of main
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languages, but you cannot have multiple versions of your website for various
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languages in a single project.
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