How to create your blog for free using Jekyll + Github pages

Create your blog locally

Install all prerequisites.

1> Open terminal

2> Before installing jekyll, we need to ensure the correct version of ruby . (Ruby version must be 2.5 or higher) .Check your Ruby version using ruby -v

3> Check your Gems version using gem -v
Install the jekyll and bundler gems.
```
gem install jekyll bundler
```
Create a new Jekyll site at ./myblog.
```
jekyll new myblog  
```
Change into your new directory.
```
cd myblog  
```
Build the site and make it available on a local server.
```
bundle exec jekyll serve
```
Browse to http://localhost:4000

To quickly edit the following:

Title, description and other details in _config.yml
Content in about.md file
Content in the blog post within _posts folder. You may also copy paste that file and edit its content to create your second blog post.
Each time you edit content and want to see how it looks, run jekyll serve and see the results on the local host
To exit from current running process Ctrl+C

If you have a Github account ,then create a new github repo.Otherwise you need to create a new github account firstly.
Go to VS Code to open the local blog folder, open terminal to initialise your git repo run
```
 git init
```
To create the branch gh-pages with the files (Github pages will use this branch for the deployment) , run
```
 git checkout -b gh-pages
```

To commit all the files, run

  git add .
  git commit -m "initial commit"

Push to Github

  #git remote add origin <git repo link>
  git remote add origin https://github.com/yourgithubname/reponame.git
  git push origin gh-pages

You can visit https://yourgithubname.github.io/reponame/. Before publish to Github ,make sure you updated the file _config.yml ,set the baseurl as your repo name for the blog.

baseurl: “/myblog” # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
Any update, just commit your changes and push to Github.