octopress

If you are interested in the Jekyll / Github approach, you ought to check out Octopress (https://github.com/imathis/octopress) by Brandon Mathis. It includes all the benefits of this approach, but with a nice out-of-the-box theme as well as useful helpers to make the blogging experience much better.

The Octopress source was last updated a few days ago ... https://github.com/imathis/octopress Personally, I use Jekyll.

I wanted to start blogging and set up Octopress/Jekyll, and spent a few days choosing a theme and then playing with the colors. Granted, I was not entirely happy with how it ended up looking, and generally did not have much motivation to start writing. Looking back, there seems to be some nice themes I'd be happy with[1]. But since I do not yet have the habit of writing, any little thing that will take time from writing/publishing a blog post will interfere with a spur of inspiration. This takes care of all my needs: no need to think about the design, no need to worry about deploying and maintaining, etc. [1] https://github.com/imathis/octopress/wiki/3rd-Party-Octopres...

Super happy. I've made probably half dozen blogs using Octopress/Jekyll. Looking forward to Octopress 2.1, which apparently is stalled: https://github.com/imathis/octopress/branches Hopefully this'll help spur Octopress dev, too.

Agreed, I had filed a bug report for that: https://github.com/imathis/octopress/issues/433

I'm a big fan of octopress now, which is just jekyll with some rake tasks and plugins already set up to make things even easier to get started.. https://github.com/imathis/octopress

I will answering your question : - Take 1 day for DNS Propagation It's taken from http://pages.github.com. It said "Remember that it may take up to a full day for DNS changes to propagate, so be patient." - rvm use I use newest rvm and it's work even without rvm use. Maybe it's execute it after installing. - Why bundle install and THEN bundle update Because Ubuntu Oneiric have newest version for liquid and rake which conflict with Octopress. I create ticket here about this issue : https://github.com/imathis/octopress/issues/243#issuecomment... And it's have solved now. Thanks for your detail correction :)

From whatI can tell from the git repository (https://github.com/imathis/octopress/), Octopress adds two major things to Jekyll: a bunch of automation (via the Rakefile) and a default theme. Reading through the Rakefile, the automation actually looks pretty useful. For example, you can a new post with rake new_post["title here"] and Octopress will generate a properly named file for you with the correct yaml front matter. I didn't look at what the default theme actually looks like, but looking through the code it appears to be useful in quickly getting a blog up. For example, it has a partial for integrating disqus comments out of the box.

I am thinking of switching my purely Jekyll based blog to using Octopress which is a blogging framework based on Jekyll and has these features : * A nice, easy to configure theme that focuses on readability. * Built in support for Twitter, Delicious, Disqus Comments, Google Analytics, and Custom Search. * Rake tasks that make development fast, and deploying easy. Github repo : http://github.com/imathis/octopress