deploying and maintaining something like this easily

This guide is for my friend to make a quick personal site. There are lots of great tutorials out there; however, I didn’t see anything concise enough that included all steps. We will:

• Use Jekyll as the framework for heavy lifting
• Deploy with GitHub pages
• Not spend money or time, go play with your dog

1. Create a new GitHub repo with your Jekyll scaffolding
   • Click to use the basic theme I use. Upgrading is easy
2. If you want to pull locally
   1. Install Jekyll and Git
   2. Start the server with bundle exec jekyll s
3. Deploy repo with GitHub actions
   1. Ensure it’s public
   2. Click Settings > Pages > Source > GitHub actions

New commits will kick off the GH actions deployment to <YOUR GITHUB USERNAME>.github.io. That’s it!

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More

If you want to spend a few bucks and use a domain name

• Configure your DNS records as follows:

Host name	Type	TTL	Data
<YOURWEBSITE>.com	A	1 hour	185.199.109.153 185.199.108.153 185.199.110.153 185.199.111.153
www.<YOURWEBSITE>.com	CNAME	1 hour	<YOUR GITHUB USERNAME>.github.io.

• In your GH repo, click Settings > Pages and add your site to the Custom Domain field in with the syntax <YOURWEBSITE>.com

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Ghost is a cool alternative to this method. Apparently, you can publish Obsidian to it; however, Ghost costs $$$. 😞

References

• Chirpy wiki

If you know of a more simple way to do this, please let us know in the comments!