site/_posts/2014-06-09-so-what-is-jekyll.md
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layout: post
title: So, What is Jekyll?
date: 2014-06-09 12:32:18
summary: Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs. Simple, static, and blog-aware.
categories: jekyll pixyll
---
Jekyll is a tool for transforming your plain text into static websites and
blogs. It is simple, static, and blog-aware. Jekyll uses the
[Liquid](http://docs.shopify.com/themes/liquid-basics) templating
language and has builtin [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)
and [Textile](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language)) support.
It also ties in nicely to [Github Pages](https://pages.github.com/).
Learn more about Jekyll on their [website](http://jekyllrb.com/).