No more databases, comment moderation or pesky updates to download, just your content. Markdown, Liquid, HTML & CSS go in. Static sites are ready for deployment. You can use custom layouts, permalinks, categories and pages. Are you tired of dealing with hosting companies Jekyll powers GitHub Pages, so you can easily create a site with GitHub using a free domain name. Jekyll is a static website generator. It can take text in any markup language you prefer and create static websites using layouts. You can modify the site's appearance, URLs, data displayed on the page, as well as its layout. The Jekyll gem makes it possible to run a jekyll executable from your terminal. You will typically use jekyll service to develop locally, and jekyll create when you need the site to be built for production. You can modify Jekyll's default build behavior by looking at the configuration options.