I never really considered shifting my blog to a different platform as I am lazy and my previous attempts ended up wasting my time. But then I got bored of using blogger interface to write posts. Apart from the fact that you don't have to take care of hosting, everything else in Blogger is a disaster for me.

• Ugly themes
• Bad editor
• Ugly themes :P
• Bad editor XD

So I thought of shifting to some other solution. My decision parameters were:-

• I want free and reliable hosting for the blog because I dont want to run around fixing stuff.
• I should be able to write posts in markdown.
• I want to theme my blog ground up.

Jekyll is something which is suitable for me:-

• Github pages can be used for hosting.
• Redcarpet markdown.
• Nice templating engine.

How I got this blog running?

• Install Jekyll in your system & don't forget to add ~/.gem/ruby/.../bin to your PATH variable

    :::bash
    gem install jekyll
  

• Visit jekyll docs on how to use jekyll

• Checkout github pages on hosting your new jekyll blog

• Also visit this to use custom domain etc..

• Check out the source code of my blog to see how social buttons, comments etc.. are implemented

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