3 Building a blog
This chapter covers
- Using a static site generator to build a blog
- How to install and make use of Jekyll
- Creating a basic blog with Jekyll
Blogs are one of the most popular forms of websites on the internet, with over 75 million people alone using the WordPress platform. A blog is typically fairly simple in structure but highly personal in nature. Much like a diary, a blog lists posts in chronological order, typically presented with the newest first on the home page. Blogs will often have categories and tags as a way to categorize and organize content, letting readers quickly find related content to a particular post.
In this chapter, we will focus on building a blog with the Jamstack. The static site generator we will use ...
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