Jekyll FTW

Jekyll is a blogging/web site platform based on ruby and which runs natively in Linux, and best of all, it uses no databases at all. So, last week, and I don’t really know the issue, but Google’s Chrome browser had flagged my site as a phishing site, but of course I had nothing to do with that. I was using wordpress, which has a mysql database backbone, and when I went into the FTP server to look around for anything weird, I just decided to delete the entire thing and start over, but interestingly, I could not delete certain files. I had to log in to my hosting provider to get rid of the old wordpress site. This leads me to believe some malicious code had been inserted into the mysql database, which Google was flagging. I’m just speculating.

Wordpress really sucks, though. It is clunky and it is a chore to get it to look good. The last few days I’ve been learning Jekyll, which is my first introduction to markdown language, but so far it is everything I want it to be. It is quite clean and I have power over every aspect of it. On top of it all, it is going to be much easier to organize the site’s content with Jekyll’s collections feature.

So this is just a first test post, but so far, I am having a lot of fun learning how to use Jekyll.