Enter your site name, description, avatar and many other options by editing the _config.yml file. Making a change to _config.yml (or any file in your repository) will force GitHub Pages to rebuild your site with Jekyll for up to 10 minutes.

Edit /_posts/2014-3-3-Hello-World.md to publish your first blog post. This Markdown Cheatsheet might come in handy.

You can add additional posts in the browser on GitHub.com too! Just hit the + icon in /_posts/ to create new content. 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

1. Install Jekyll and plug-ins in one fell swoop. gem install github-pages This mirrors the plug-ins used by GitHub Pages on your local machine including Jekyll, Sass, etc.
2. Clone down your fork git clone https://github.com/yourusername/yourusername.github.io.git
3. Serve the site and watch for markup/sass changes jekyll serve
4. View your website at http://127.0.0.1:4000/
5. Commit any changes and push everything to the master branch of your GitHub user repository. GitHub Pages will then rebuild and serve your website.

You can use the Quick Start workflow with other themes that are set up to be forked too! Here are some of my favorites:

• Hyde by MDO
• Lanyon by MDO
• mojombo.github.io by Tom Preston-Werner
• Left by Zach Holman
• Minimal Mistakes by Michael Rose
• Skinny Bones by Michael Rose