Two different approaches: Jekyll is often top-down, start with a theme that you like and make edits to the css and html files until you get something you like. Downside is if you want to make major changes, you’ll have to understand complex code you didn’t write yourself. The approach given by this post is bottom-down; start with some basic css edits. Downside is you may spend enough time customizing that using a Jekyll would have been better. ️
That is true. I have used Jekyll but having to study obscure settings files and complex directory structures is not enjoyable when all you really want to do is to get on with writing your blog.
