The Jekyll community already has a gallery of pre-made themes ready to use out-of-the-box. You can also crank out those developer skills and make your own Jekyll site.

I’ve been using Jekyll for my personal site for a few iterations now. Here are a few things that I’ve figured out:

Code styling

Jekyll uses Rogue to convert any template text wrapped around code bblocks or {% highlight %} into HTML tags with certain tags. But since you are starting from scratch, there is no styling provided.

Follow this section to download the stylesheets and import it into your base SCSS file.