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title: Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
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<section class="intro">
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    <p class="first">Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs. <br />So easy, <strong>it&rsquo;s scary</strong>.</p>
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      <h2>Simple</h2>
      <p>
        No more databases, comment moderation, or pesky updates to install—just <em>your content</em>.
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      <a href="{% post_url 2012-07-01-usage %}" class="">How Jekyll works &rarr;</a>
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      <h2>Static</h2>
      <p><a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a> (or <a href="http://textile.sitemonks.com/">Textile</a>), <a href="http://liquidmarkup.org/">Liquid</a>, HTML <span class="amp">&amp;</span> CSS go in. Static sites come out ready for deployment.</p>
      <a href="{% post_url 2012-07-01-templates %}" class="">Jekyll template guide &rarr;</a>
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      <h2>Blog-aware</h2>
      <p>
        Permalinks, categories, pages, posts, and custom layouts are all first-class citizens here.
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      <a href="{% post_url 2012-07-01-migrations %}" class="">Migrate your blog &rarr;</a>
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<section class="quickstart">
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      <h4>Get up and running <em>in seconds</em>.</h4>
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        <p class="title">Quick-start Instructions</p>
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            <span class="path">~</span>
            <span class="prompt">$</span>
            <span class="command">gem install jekyll</span>
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            <span class="path">~</span>
            <span class="prompt">$</span>
            <span class="command">cd my/awesome/site</span>
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            <span class="path">~/my/awesome/site</span>
            <span class="prompt">$</span>
            <span class="command">jekyll serve</span>
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            <span class="output"># => Now browse to http://localhost:4000</span>
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    <img src="img/octojekyll.png" alt="Free Jekyll hosting on GitHub Pages">
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      <h2><strong>Free hosting</strong> with GitHub Pages</h2>
      <p>Sick of dealing with hosting companies? <a href="http://pages.github.com/">GitHub Pages</a> are <em>powered by Jekyll</em>, so you can easily deploy your site using GitHub for free&mdash;<a href="https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-pages">custom domain name</a> and all.</p>
      <a href="http://pages.github.com/" class="">Learn more about GitHub Pages &rarr;</a>
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