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HTML
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title: So what is Jekyll, exactly?
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layout: slide
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Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. It takes a template
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directory containing raw text files in various formats, runs it through
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[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) (or
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[Textile](http://redcloth.org/textile)) and
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[Liquid](http://wiki.shopify.com/Liquid)
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converters, and spits out a complete, ready-to-publish static website suitable
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for serving with your favorite web server. Jekyll also happens to be the engine
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behind [GitHub Pages](http://pages.github.com), which means you can use Jekyll
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to host your project’s page, blog, or website from GitHub’s servers **for
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free**.
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