Jekyll Tutorials

Why Jekyll

There are many ways to create a website. Most people stick with “Website Builder” tools like wix, the major benefit being WYSIWYG. It is also relatively easier to build as you don’t need to work with command prompt and get things like:

Liquid Exception: Could not find document '_Physics/2022-08-02-DarkEnergy' in tag 'link'. Make sure the document exists and the path is correct. in C:/Users/henry/OneDrive/Documents/Newwebsite/_Journal/2022-10-29-Isuckatmath.markdown
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      Jekyll 4.2.2   Please append `--trace` to the `serve` command
                     for any additional information or backtrace.
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However, for people using GitHub and are interesting in computing (not saying Jekyll requires computing, but at least you can put stuff in your Github Account. Like THIS), since jekyll supports Github Pages, it is always almost recommended to use Jekyll.

This comparision is similar to \(\LaTeX\) vs Word. It is easier to work with word, but mathematicians may pick on you if you use Word for your thesis!

The other thing is that Jekyll supports much more functions than Wix (from my understanding). In particular, Math Equations, like:

\[\mathbf{H}=\left[\begin{array}{cccc} \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_1^2} & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_1 \partial x_2} & \cdots & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_1 \partial x_n} \\ \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_2 \partial x_1} & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_2^2} & \cdots & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_2 \partial x_n} \\ \vdots & \vdots & \ddots & \vdots \\ \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_n \partial x_1} & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_n \partial x_2} & \cdots & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_n^2} \end{array}\right]\]

By Simply typing

$$
\mathbf{H}=\left[\begin{array}{cccc}
\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_1^2} & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_1 \partial x_2} & \cdots & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_1 \partial x_n} \\
\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_2 \partial x_1} & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_2^2} & \cdots & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_2 \partial x_n} \\
\vdots & \vdots & \ddots & \vdots \\
\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_n \partial x_1} & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_n \partial x_2} & \cdots & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_n^2}
\end{array}\right]
$$