Name: Jekyll
Rating: 9 (10 reviews)
Author: Open Source

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CTRM

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HR Management

Payroll

Resume Parsing

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Talent Management

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Workforce Management

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

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All-in-One Marketing

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Data Cleansing

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Email Marketing

Location Intelligence

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Jekyll is an open source static site generator useful as a blog publishing system.

Wordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.

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Blogging platforms are a subset of content management systems and are designed to simplify creating and maintaining weblogs.

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Google Analytics

Google Drive

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GitHub

Chrome DevTools

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Server side

Annoying at times

3rd party

Non technical

3rd party software

Technical users

Non technical users

Edge cases

Easy to update

Ability to check

Support documentation

Entire site

Free to use

Version control

Single page

Easy to deploy

Backed up

Multi page

Super fast

Home

Blogging Platforms

I used Jekyll at two previous organizations. The first was a non-profit college where I used Jekyll to keep costs down. The second was a small web development firm where I used Jekyll to speed development of the company's portfolio website. Jekyll is great for both purposes. Jekyll allowed me to keep costs low for the college I worked for by hosting it for free on GitHub.com along with a custom domain. Jekyll allowed me to speed development at the web firm by allowing me to work very close to the front-end technologies I'm expert in, without having to fiddle with other people's layers in between. The other advantage we reaped at the web firm was how easy it is to build a screaming-fast Jekyll website, since the entire site ends up as a static site, which is great for a website meant to show off your web development skill.

Jekyll is a joy to use for people who aren't intimidated by HTML, CSS, and Markdown. It gets out of your way, giving you the power to build a website that would be a pain to build in straight HTML, but without imposing the needless complexity so many other CMS's bolt on.
Jekyll sites tend to be extremely fast, and can be made even faster with very little effort on the webmaster's part. All you're serving are static assets.
A big advantage of Jekyll is the ability to check in your entire site, content and all, into version control. You never have to worry about upgrading your site and losing your content. It's all backed up in GitHub, or any other git hosting you choose to use.
Jekyll sites can be run at near-zero costs. Host it for free on GitHub Pages, and the only expense you have left is a domain name, about $10 a year.
You can do most things with Jekyll you'd think would require a database and CMS. Blogging comes built in. Comments, contact forms, and many other common features can be embedded into your site from another service. With a little clever programming, most sites really don't need the complexity and speed impediments of a database.

Straight out of the box, Jekyll lacks a friendly WordPress-style back-end. You'll be working in Liquid (HTML), Sass (CSS), and Markdown (content) files. If you're already comfortable with these languages, you'll feel at home in no time. If not, you may need to consider getting someone else's expertise to set up the site, and then use another back-end (probably paid) to make editing your site's files less intimidating.
If you use GitHub Pages for the free hosting, be forewarned that GitHub only white lists a few plugins for their own compilation. This usually isn't a problem (you can compile on your own computer if need be), but can be annoying at times.

Jekyll has kept our costs low, very low, on all the projects I've used on it. Think $10 a year low.

Chrome DevTools, Google Analytics, Google Drive

We use Jekyll as a basic content management system framework for building basic, static, (and mostly freely hosted) websites. Generally the websites are either small prototypes, landing pages for new products or something new we're launching, or even as a basic blogging platform for one of our community driven technology sites. Jekyll helps you get up and running very quickly with a bare bones blog enabled site.

Lightweight blogging framework
Lots of support documentation
Can host practically anywhere

Complicated for non-technical users
Can be difficult to enter in new content
Implementing dynamic components can be challenging

Jekyll has improved our time to market in cases of new projects
Jekyll has reduced the cost of hosting a website

Jekyll is used as the static site generator for project documentation, user guides, and developer best practices explanations. We're using it both through GitHub's built-in Pages feature (which compiles Jekyll sites for us automatically) and locally for content and design staging before anything ever ships to production. Jekyll allows us to work on the content of a documentation site independent of the code that builds and hosts the content.

Static site generation
Dynamic templates
Single-page applications
Advanced, multi-page navigation and organization with template hierarchy

Ease of local usage (Ruby isn't always the friendliest environment, especially on Windows)
Up-to-date documentation on configuration for edge cases and plugins

All of our documentation is now centralized to one, version controlled location and presented seamlessly. Engineers don't have to spend hours trolling through a wiki or sorting Google Pages to find the information they need.
Because Jekyll sites are fully-fledged websites, sometimes the _design_ of a document can overwhelm the interest of the team maintaining it - they'll spend more time perfecting the look/feel than they should.

At my organization, we currently use Jekyll on my team as an easy way to publish our style guide and pattern library. The Jekyll site gets deployed automatically through GitHub pages. I use Jekyll personally for a portfolio website, also deployed through GitHub Pages. I also have used Netlify for publishing Jekyll sites in the past.

Content stored in Git with the website code
Free to use
Easy to deploy to cheap/free hosting solutions
Produces super fast static websites

Not easy to update for non-developers
No server-side language to support things like contact forms, so 3rd party software/service is needed
Ruby gems can get messy

It's free with GitHub Pages, so it cost us nothing to use
It's tied into GitHub, so deploying changes is super easy (as opposed to deploying elsewhere)
Keeps all content together with the code, so only one place to maintain information

Jekyll

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What is Jekyll?