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+title: Creating my web
+date:   2013-08-22 14:14:22
+tags:
+ - starters
+ - javascript
+ - ruby
+ - github
+ - git
+---
+
+
+I've finally 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,
+[Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com) will automatically generate static pages
+for my posts every time I commit anything new to this repository.
+
+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.
+
+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
+[gists](http://gist.github.com/balkian) and
+[repositories](http://github.com/balkian), but we will see about that.
+
+I think the code speaks for itself, so you can check out [my repository
+on Github](http://github.com/balkian/balkian.github.com). You can clone
+and deploy it easily like this:
+
+```bash
+git clone
+https://github.com/balkian/balkian.github.com cd balkian.github.com
+jekyll serve -w
+```
+
+I will keep updating this post with information about:
+
+-   Some Jekyll plugins that might be useful
+-   What CSS tricks I learnt
+-   The webfonts I used
+-   The badge on the left side of the page