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Below are some resources that I found extremely helpful in learning and maximizing Jekyll as a blogging platform. I highly recommend bookmarking these resources and using them frequently as you learn Jekyll.
Official site : Jekyll home page. Features help, documentation, and news about Jekyll.
Jekyll Bootstrap : Blogging scaffolding for Jekyll sites. Integrates Bootstrap and other frameworks into default Jekyll builds.
Jekyll Github Repo : Jekyll source files
Alphabetizing Jekyll Tags : Great article on organizing and sorting tags for archive pages by Michael Lanyon. I used his approach for this blog.
How to Create Data-Driven Navigation : Blog post by Dale Tournemille on creating dynamic menus in Jekyll through the use of a data file.
Jekyll Dynamic Menus : A dynamically generated hierarchical menu in jekyll by Jonathan Vollebregt. Works without plugins so is Github safe.
Creating Dynamic Menus in Jekyll : Article by ThinkShout on using URLs to generate intellegent dynamic menus.
Daring Fireball : Markdown syntax reference written by John Gruber, creator of Markdown.
[Kramdown Quick Reference](http://kramdown.gettalong.org/quickref.html “kramdown quick reference") : Quick reference guide for Kramdown, Jekyll’s current default Markdown rendering engine. Features code examples and description of common formatting tasks.
Project homepage : Home page for the Liquid templating language. Contains downloads, documentations, and links to external resources.
Liquid for Designers : Shopify reference targeted at designers, with an emphasis on explaining language components and syntax.
Shopify Theme Guides : Although largely focused on Shopify, provides a nice syntax reference for Liquid.
Yaml.org : YAML.org home page. Links to specifications, related projects, and news. Although fairly technical, specifications provide a nice syntax resource.
Github Pages Gem : Part of the Gihub repository. Allows you to track the latest versions of Jekyll components within Github so that you can stay current if using Github for deployment.
Git-ftp : Git integrated FTP client. Good for integrating Git source control into a FTP-based deployment.
Git Deployment : Article by Nicolas Gallagher outlining a deployment strategy for static sites using Git. Although technical, it’s one of the clearest examples I’ve found on the subject.
Github Pages : Official site and documentation. Contains a section on Jekyll integration and deployment.