Introducing Jekyll Now

Jekyll is a static site generator that's perfect for GitHub hosted blogs.

Jekyll Now makes it easier to create a Jekyll blog, by eliminating a lot of the up front setup.

Create your blog in 30 seconds!

![Initial setup of Jekyll Now]({{ site.baseurl }}/images/step1.gif "Initial setup of Jekyll Now")

Jekyll Now Features

βœ“ Command-line free fork-first workflow, using GitHub.com to create, customize and post to your blog

βœ“ Fully responsive and mobile optimized base theme
βœ“ Sass/Coffeescript support using Jekyll 2.0
βœ“ Free hosting on your GitHub Pages user site
βœ“ Markdown blogging
βœ“ Syntax highlighting
βœ“ Disqus commenting
βœ“ Google Analytics integration
βœ“ SVG social icons for your footer
βœ“ 3 http requests, including your avatar

✘ No installing dependancies

✘ No need to set up local development
✘ No configuring plugins
✘ No need to spend time on theming
✘ More time to code other things ... wait βœ“!

Quick Start walkthrough on the Jekyll Now GitHub repository.