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**Beautiful Jekyll** is a ready-to-use template to make help you create an awesome Jekyll or GitHub Pages website quickly. 

To learn how you can use **Beautiful Jekyll** to create your website in minutes, go to the [Beautiful Jekyll GitHub page](https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll#readme).


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## Overview of steps required

There are only three simple steps, so using **Beautiful Jekyll** is *literally* as easy as 1-2-3 :)    

Here is a 40-second video showing how to get started, with the specific steps below.  For a more complete installation guide, [visit the Beautiful Jekyll page](https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll#readme).

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### 1. Fork (copy) the Beautiful Jekyll project 

### 2. Rename the project to `yourusername.github.io`

### 3. Customize settings in the `config.yml` file to personalize your website

That's it! You can now visit your shiny new website.

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See how easy that is? I wasn't lying - it really can be done in two minutes.

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