1.**It sports a clean responsive theme** written in semantic HTML5, focused on readability and friendliness toward mobile devices.
2.**Octopress loves programmers.** Embed code (with [Solarized](http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) styling) in your posts from gists or from your filesystem.
3.**Third party integration is simple** with built-in support for Twitter, Pinboard, Delicious, Disqus Comments, and Google Analytics.
4.**It's easy to use.** A collection of rake tasks simplifies development and makes deploying a cinch.
5.**Get curated plugins.** Plugins are hand selected from the Jekyll community then tested and improved.
## Get Setup
[Fork Octopress](https://github.com/imathis/octopress), then open the console and follow along.
git clone (your repo url)
# Optionally add a branch for pulling in Octopress updates
Setup an [RVM](http://beginrescueend.com/) and install dependencies.
source .rvmrc
bundle install
# Install pygments (for syntax highlighing)
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install pygments
# Install the default Octopress theme
rake install
### Write A Post
rake post['hello world']
This will create a new post named something like `2011-06-17-hello-world.markdown` in the `source/_posts` directory.
Open that file in your favorite text editor and you'll see a block of [yaml front matter](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/yaml-front-matter)
which tells Jekyll how to processes posts and pages.
---
title: Hello World
date: 2011-06-17 14:34
layout: post
---
Octopress adds some custom paramaters to give you more publishing flexibility and you can [read about those here](#include_link),
but for now. Go ahead and type up a sample post or use some [inspired filler](http://baconipsum.com/).
### Generate Your Blog
rake preview
This will generate your blog, watch your `sass` and `source` directories for changes regenerating automatically, and mount Jekyll's built in webbrick server. Open your browser to `http://localhost:4000` and check it out.
If you'd rather use [POW](http://pow.cx) to serve up your site, you can do this instead.
cd ~/.pow
ln -s /path/to/octopress
#Then generate your site
rake watch
`rake watch` does the same thing as `rake preview` except it doesn't mount Jekyll's webbrick server.
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