I’m a beginner with no development experience. I’ve searched online for a lot of information, but there aren’t many tutorials available. Where can I find more tutorials?
For what exactly? You haven’t give much information.
The Jekyll docs have a tutorial:
Good question – the step-by-step tutorial chuckhoupt linked is genuinely the best starting point, but if you are brand new to web development, you might find it easier to watch Mike Dane’s Jekyll playlist on YouTube first. He walks through everything from scratch in a really approachable way, and it helps a lot to see the filesystem structure before you start reading docs.
Once you’ve got the basics, CloudCannon’s blog has some solid written tutorials that fill in gaps the official docs leave open – things like working with collections, front matter defaults, and deploying to GitHub Pages.
What I’d suggest is: don’t try to learn everything at once. Pick one simple goal – a personal portfolio with a few pages – and build that. The studio I work with started using Jekyll for a client site a couple of years ago and honestly the learning curve is steeper than it looks at first, mainly because of the Ruby gem dependencies. If you’re on Windows, that can be a particular pain point. WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) makes the whole thing smoother if that applies to you.
What kind of site are you trying to build? That might help people give you more pointed advice.
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