Jekyll it is!
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So, after testing WordPress, CloudCannon and Publli, I have started using Jekyll. As I have told you in the previous post, this blog is created using it.
A bit about this Blog
This blog is a testing ground for me to check how well Jekyll performs according to my needs. Till now, it has performed exceptionally well. So, how did I create this blog?
The first thing I would like to tell you is that I am using Ubuntu (Default GNOME edition) now. So, I tried to search for how to install Jekyll on Ubuntu. Jekyll is built using Ruby, so I needed to install Ruby first. Ruby came in the form of a snap, so I installed it. Why did I install the snap and not the regular DEB version? I was not sure if Jekyll would be interesting enough for me. Snaps are much easier to remove and purge from the system than DEB packages. So, I installed Ruby using snap.
But, the snap package did not work for me. It spilled an error when I tried to install Jekyll. I did not try to troubleshoot it. I did not want to invest too much time into Jekyll. So I then installed the DEB package. The installation went smoothly. I followed the instructions from the official Jekyll website and all went well. I installed Jekyll successfully.
Then came the next phase - searching for an appropriate theme. I searched on various websites and tested several themes, but none of the themes pleased me. If I found a theme that I liked, I found that it was abandoned and did not work now. At last, I came to this theme: https://lanyon.getpoole.com/
This theme was not at all perfect for VirtualHub, but it gave me a new idea - the idea of this blog. So, I created this blog and after some time decided that Jekyll was useful enough to try to port VirtualHub into.
Neo.VirtualHub
Once again, I started to search for a theme suitable for the VirtualHub website. I tested a lot more themes. I then decided on https://chirpy.cotes.page/. This theme has most of the features I needed including search, Dark Mode/Light Mode preference for viewers, Categories, and Tags Support. It just lacked one thing: the layout I wanted:
But, I decided to live with that. I decided to use giscus for the commenting system. I played with staticman but decided not to use it.
That's all for today! In the next post, I will tell you why I did not choose insert_your_favorite_theme_here.
Stay tuned!
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