Here we go this is my first post. Please note that I followed Jonathan McGlone steps to build this page. The steps provided by Jonathan McGlone, are very clearly outlined, and I say, in case you want to build your own website, I highly recommend implementing them faithfully. I have been thinking to own a page for a while, now because of COVID-19 at last I got the courage and the time to putting this website together. This is hosted by Github pages, and the interesting feature of it is that it is powered by Jekyll and I can use Markdown to author my posts.
As Jonathan says It actually is a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I expected a lot of hurdle to build the web, but the steps outlined – though I didn’t completely understand what it is – seems to be effective in helping me build my site.
Here is a brief review of how to use markdown that is listed on github pages.
Markdown is a lightweight and easy-to-use syntax for styling your writing. It includes conventions for
Syntax highlighted code block
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
- Bulleted
- List
1. Numbered
2. List
**Bold** and _Italic_ and `Code` text
[Link](url) and 
For more details see GitHub Flavored Markdown.
The interestihg thing about this website is I can simply use the github provided editor editor on GitHub to maintain and preview the content for my website, and this is done in Markdown files.