I started using Jekyll when I didn’t really know HTML, CSS, or Ruby - so I’ve had to learn a lot - but using Jekyll has been a great learning experience for all those languages. I’ve tried to boil down steps to building a Jekyll site or blog to the minimal steps: Install Jekyll Mac/Linux/Unix: Install dependencies: Ruby RubyGems Install Jekyll using RubyGems gem install jekyll (you may need to do sudo....
Recology used to be hosted on Blogger, and my personal website was hosted on Wordpress. Neither platform was very satisfying. Blogger is very limited in their layouts, unless you use dynamic views, which suck because they don’t allow javascript snippets to render GitHub gists. Wordpress is just limited all around as you can’t put in hardly anythig excep text and some pictures. They both have their place, but not so much for content that requires syntax highlighting, references, etc....