Vasudha Kulkarni's personal website based on the PorfolYOU theme.
Here are some resources for creating your own static site using Jekyll and hosting it on Github -
- Youtube videos -
- Detailed tutorial on Making and hosting your personal website by Graham Northrup
- Meet Jekyll by Techno Tim
- How to create a free website using Gihub pages by Tony Teaches Tech
- Jekyll is a static site generator written in the programming language Ruby. Installing Ruby on your system can be the bottleneck. Here's a super useful article about Ruby on Mac by Moncef Belyamani. Caveat: The article insists there's no need for a Ruby package manager, but you're going to need one (I used 'rbenv').
- You can build your website from scratch or use a pre-made Jekyll template (Al Folio is a popular one for academic websites). Here are some useful websites -
- Commands to run the website locally In the terminal, go into the directory where your root directory is located and then run the following -
cd Computer/website/folder
bundle install
jekyll new . --force
bundle exec jekyll serve --watch
- Verify your website -
- Add Google Analytics verification code in the config file
- Add Google search console HTML verification file
- Some other options