After many years of using WordPress and other Content Management Systems I decided to try something different and setup my personal website using Jekyll. Jekyll is a static site generator in Ruby and as stated in their README file on github:

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages.

In next post I will write how you can install and configure Jekyll