Beautiful Jekyll

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Build a beautiful and simple website in literally minutes. Demo at https://beautifuljekyll.com

Overview

Beautiful Jekyll is a ready-to-use template that allows users to create a beautiful website quickly. It is perfect for personal sites, blogs, or simple project websites. This template is highly customizable and supports features such as mobile-first design, SEO and social media integration, comments support, analytics integration, and more. It has been used and enjoyed by over 50,000 users since 2015.

Features

  • Simple: Allows anyone to create a website in a few minutes.
  • Modern: Uses the latest best practices and technologies.
  • Mobile-first: Designed to look great on both large-screen and small-screen devices.
  • Highly customizable: Offers personalization settings like changing background color/image and adding a logo.
  • Flexible usage: Can be used directly on GitHub or via a Ruby gem.
  • Battle-tested: Trusted by over 50,000 users since 2015.
  • SEO and social media support: Customize site appearance on Google and social media platforms.
  • Comments support: Add comments using Disqus, Facebook comments, Utterances, Staticman, giscus, or CommentBox.
  • Tags: Tag blog posts with keywords and generate an index page automatically.
  • Analytics: Easily integrate Google Analytics or other analytics platforms.
  • Search: Include a search button in the navigation bar for easy page discovery.
  • Photos support: Add full-width cover photos and thumbnails to pages.
  • RSS: Automatically generate an RSS feed for hosting podcasts.
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Jekyll

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Blog

Blog websites feature posts written by one or more authors, organized by categories and tags, with a section for comments and archives sorted by date or topic. Additional features may include search bar, social media sharing, subscription or RSS feed, about and contact pages, and visual content.

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