How to set up a website in 5 minutes

Clone a Github repo with one of the free Jekyll templates. For example, this website uses flexible-jekyll theme. or
Publish on Github Pages following the instructions here. In short:
- if your repo adress is https://github.com/user/repo, then your website will be published at https://user.github.io/repo,
- however, you can rename your repo to user.github.io which will publish your website at https://user.github.io without any subdomain,
- make sure that the content of your Jekyll config file _config.yml matches the address of the Github repo:
  
  baseurl: “” url: “https://user.github.io
If you want to build the website locally to preview the changes before pushing them to the public repo:
- first set up a server and click on the url to open it in a browser:
  
  jekyll s
- then, after every change you want to see applied in the website, just build without setting up a new server
  
  jekyll b
- refresh the website in your browser.