I feel your pain with getting setup with Jekyll. I've been using it for a little over a year for my blog that is hosted with Github Pages. I am pretty happy wi

I feel your pain with getting setup with Jekyll. I've been using it for a little over a year for my blog that is hosted with Github Pages. I am pretty happy with my setup (finally) - I've got blog posts and book reviews, but also talk slides generated with Showoff. I use categories in the Front Matter for grouping the three types of content. The nice part is that now that I've done the setup work, I've had friends and co-workers just fork my blog, clear out the _posts folder and start writing (and hopefully re-style at some point). My main pain points are around the required dates in the filenames and the lack of documentation/examples for using the Template Data. It would be nice for RSS feeds to be built-in as well. https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com