This post will show of the simplest ways, in my opinion, to include photos in a post. There are more sophisticated methods to create an image gallery on Jekyll, but these solutions seem require much more hacking around to get everything (plugins, HTML, CSS, Javascript, …) to work properly (and then things always change!). So instead, we will have a look at this rudimentary but clean approach.

Hello World! This blog allows posts to be written using Markdown (for which this Markdown cheatsheet is very useful) and HTML/CSS, with support for maths typesetting using LaTeX + MathJax. For example, here is an inline formula formula: $y = ax^2 + bx + c$. We can also present displayed equations in their own (Markdown) section:

This blog was built using Jekyll. This is the welcome page that comes with the new, freshly baked blog.

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.