In this course, you’ll learn how to deploy a static site to the Internet. What exactly do we mean by deploy, or deploying? Deploying means making content or software accessible and availabl…

The focus of this course will be on the process of deploying a website, not on actually creating a website. We’ll use a popular tool known as Jekyll to quickly generate a website. This will help…

Before we can generate a website, we must install Jekyll. Jekyll is a Ruby gem (also known as a RubyGem ) and can be installed from the command line. Don’t worry, knowledge of Ruby is not requi…

Great! Now that Jekyll is installed, let’s generate your website. To do so, we’ll use Jekyll’s […] command and specify a directory name. The directory will contain all of your site’s default c…

Want to see what your site currently looks like? You can use Jekyll to view your site locally. On the web, a server hosts your site’s files and makes your website available for everyone to see. …

The website that Jekyll generates differs from a website that you’d create on your own. It offers a standard directory structure, as well as components that help speed up development. It’s importa…

Great work! Let’s review what you accomplished in this unit: 1. Installed Jekyll 2. Used Jekyll to generate a static site 3. Started a local server to view your site Why was this important? The c…