Setting up a website with Jekyll and Github Pages

This post has some of my personal notes that helped me setup this website, in case I ever need to do this again (I probably will).

There are a number of steps involved, broadly:

1. Clone a Jekyll theme you like on Github. I used the Minimal mistakes theme on Github.
2. Make the relevant configuration changes
3. Setup site layout and navigation
4. Setup aliasing so that the Github pages site is visible on a custom domain, in my case adwait.dongare.com