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## Introduction

So, you want to start blogging, and you should! Blogging is a great way to relax, share information, and reinforce new topics that you may be learning about. Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator, and you can use it to easily stand up your own blog and have it hosted for free using Github Pages. Today, we'll be using the [Jekyll-Now](www.jekyllnow.com) theme to style our newly-created blog, and we'll host it on Github Pages with a custom domain name.
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title: How to Set Up a Jekyll Blog
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So, you want to start blogging, and you should! Blogging is a great way to relax, share information, and reinforce new topics that you may be learning about. Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator, and you can use it to easily stand up your own blog and have it hosted for free using Github Pages. Today, we'll be using the [Jekyll-Now](www.jekyllnow.com) theme to style our newly-created blog, and we'll host it on Github Pages with a custom domain name.

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