Steps for working with Jekyll site.
Optional Step
Install Node
Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient.
you can download nodejs from here and install It will provide you access node and npm commanad from cmd.
Install Git
Git is the version control.
you can download Git from here.
Install Ruby
Ruby is the programming language that Jekyll is written in. You’ll need to install Ruby and the corresponding DevKit, which is needed to build some of Jekyll’s dependencies as “native extensions”.
you can download Ruby from here
Execute the installer and go through the steps of the installation. Make sure to check the “Add Ruby executables to your PATH” box like below.
Jekyll has some dependencies which, out of the box, only provide raw source code. To make them into fully functional executables, you’ll probably need to install the Development Kit.
Install the Ruby DevKit
you can download Ruby DevKit from the same page you have downloaded Ruby.
Download the DevKit archive that corresponds to your Ruby installation and system architecture. The file name will begin with DevKit-mingw. Choose the 32bits or 64bits version depending on your system.
The download is a self-extracting archive. When you execute the file, it’ll ask you for a destination for the files. Enter a path that has no spaces in it. Recommendation something simple, like C:\RubyDevKit\. Click Extract and wait until the process is finished.
Next, you need to initialize the DevKit and bind it to your Ruby installation. Open your favorite command line tool and navigate to the folder you extracted the DevKit into.
cd C:\RubyDevKit
Auto-detect Ruby installations and add them to a configuration file for the next step.
ruby dk.rb init
Install the DevKit, binding it to your Ruby installation.
ruby dk.rb install
That’s it! If all went well, you now have a working Ruby installation on your machine and you can build fully functional executables using the Ruby Development Kit. Ruby includes a way to install so-called gems—software packages that you can use from the command line. Jekyll is one of them!
Install Jekyll
Launch your favorite command line tool and enter the following command.
gem install jekyll
Now, you are ready to get started with Jekyll site
I suggest to get started with Jekyll, give some time to already created and popular Jekyll sites.
Clone/Download a repository which contains all the jekyll files needed to create a website such as the jekyll-bootstrap repository
From the root folder of the repository you downloaded _config.yml file. Launch command line tool and Run below command.
jekyll serve