Building a Blog on Github

I am using this blog to organize my own thoughts. Tags on the posts would be helpful in this regard. Unfortunately, the Jekyll theme I like will not support tags out of the box. I used this opportunity to learn a bit more about Jekyll and webpages. To add tags to your Jekyll based page, you can follow Long Qian’s excellent step-by-step guide.

While the guide worked perfectly, I found that there was a lag between pushing changes to Github and the changes being displayed on the web. To iterate faster, I installed Jekyll locally using this guide and followed this help page on Github to render it locally.