This blog was put together using Jekyll and Github Pages. Listed next are the steps I followed:

• Create a Repostory in Github named “blog”. While creating the repostory also include a default .gitignore file of type Jekyll.
• Clone the repository on your local machine (I have a OSX machine).
• Install Jekyll by running gem install jekyll on command prompt. (No need to install Ruby, as Ruby 2.0 is included in OS X Yosemite and Mavericks. OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, and Snow Leopard ship with Ruby 1.8.7.)
• Run jekyll new blog on command prompt. A folder named “blog” will be created.
• Copy the contents of the folder into the folder where the “blog” repository has been cloned.
• In command prompt switch to “blog” repostory folder and execute command jekyll serve. This command compiles the contents of the website into static web pages and places the in “_site” folder. Next, this command hosts (locally) the created pages by default at http://127.0.0.1:4000/
• Point your web browser to http://127.0.0.1:4000/ to see the generated content.
• Use Ctrl+C to stop hosting.
• Push the changes back to repository in the branch “gh-pages”. This is important because the Github uses this branch to render the pages. All the site related changes must be pushed to “gh-pages” branch. If you had included the default .gitignore file of type Jekyll during the creation of the repostory, the generated “_site” folder and its contents will be ignored. This is important because Github internally uses Jekyll to generate web pages, and if you check in “_site” folder, that may interfere with Github internal process. Have to confirm this though
• your blog should be active on yourGithubUsername.github.io/blog. If not give it a couple of hours.
• For adding posts, type your posts in markup and place them in the “_posts” folder. The naming convention of the placed file is yyyy-mm-dd-postname.markdown.
• Use the following template for the header of each post. The first lines of the markdown files

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layout: post
title:  "Post_NAME"
date:   YYYY-mm-DD HH:MM:SS
categories: Tutorial
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• Run jekyll serve on commandline to see how the posts looks and make adjustment to markdown if necessary.
• Push you changes to repository (remember the “gh-pages” branch).
• Happy publishing

####Other Useful Resources

1. Jekyll Configuration Information
2. Github Pages
3. Jekyll Themes
4. Jekyll Blog Tutorial Video
5. Repostory for this blog
6. Github Markdown
7. Emoji in Markdown