Blogging Using Markdown and Text-editor

This post is about how I started blogging using my favourite text-editor and Markdown. Earlier I was using the Blogger and Wordpress. But it is very difficult to edit on WYSIWYG editor. Especially when you are adding code-snippet or commands.

Finally I got Poole, which is a butler for Jekyll. Jekyll is a static site generator, an open-source tool for creating simple yet powerful websites of all shapes and sizes.

This is what I did.

Since github provides free hosting for sites developed in Jekyll, as github pages at gihub.io. As a first step to create github page, I just created a repo with <my-github-username>.github.io here.

Then cloned the repo to my system, and downloaded the Lanyon Poole theme from here. Extracted the Lanyon files to my repo ~/sujith3g.github.io/. Then pushed the changes to my repo, after sometime my github page was up and running sujith3g.github.io.

It was the default data provided by Poole. After reading this tutorial for several minutes. I have changed some basic configurations like Title,Author Name,etc. And started writing this post using my Sublime-text.

Thanks!