<p>Finally, I've decided to set up a decent personal page. I have settled
for github-pages because I like the idea of keeping my site in a
repository and having someone else host and deploy it for me. The site
will be really simple, mostly static files. Thanks to Github,
<aclass="reference external"href="http://jekyllrb.com">Jekyll</a> will automatically generate static
pages for my posts every time I commit anything new to this repository.</p>
<p>But Jekyll can be used independently, so if I ever choose to host the
site myself, I can do it quite easily. Another thing that I liked about
this approach is that the generated html files can be used in the
future, and I will not need Jekyll to serve it. Jekyll is really simple
and most of the things are written in plain html. That means that
everything could be easily reused if I ever choose to change to another
blogging framework (e.g. pelical). But, for the time being, I like the
fact that Github takes care of the compilation as well, so I can simply
modify or add files through the web interface should I need to.</p>
<p>I hadn't played with HTML and CSS for a while now, so I also wanted to
use this site as a playground. At some point, I realised I was doing
mostly everything in plain HTML and CSS, and decided to keep it like
that for as long as possible. As of this writing, I haven't included any
Javascript code in the page. Probably I will use some to add my
<aclass="reference external"href="http://gist.github.com/balkian">gists</a> and
<aclass="reference external"href="http://github.com/balkian">repositories</a>, but we will see about
that.</p>
<p>I think the code speaks for itself, so you can check out <aclass="reference external"href="http://github.com/balkian/balkian.github.com">my repository
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