Deploying to Jekyll

19 Mar 2021 - Eric Chrobak

This site was started in 2016 as part of a Codecademy project. At the time it was built on HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and JQuery. It went through a series of changes from there. With the main one being a css theme being added for the nav menu.

Over time I saw the maintenance of the site was becoming to much. Some of the things that were a big hindrance were:

1. Hosting fees
2. Everytime I had to change the nav or footer I had to update each page
3. Deploying changes was tedius and cumbersome.
   
   

I decided I needed to switch to something more scalable and cheaper. After comparing different options I settled on Jekyll and the GitHub Pages tandem. This provides you:

• A way to build templates for your website pages, nav, and footer to make changes site wide once
• Make it static
• Have free hosting
• Develop with Ruby
• Code it all from scratch
• Deploy changes when making a git push
  
  

The process I had to go through to get this up and running was rather long and intricate but I learned a lot of things and am now able to maintain it myself.