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Jekyll’s growing use is producing a wide variety of tutorials, frameworks, extensions, examples, and other resources that can be very helpful. Below is a collection of links to some of the most popular Jekyll resources.
### Jekyll tips & tricks, and examples
- [Tips for working with GitHub Pages Integration](https://gist.github.com/2890453)
Code example reuse, and keeping documentation up to date.
- [Use Simple Form to integrate a simple contact
form](http://getsimpleform.com/)
- [JekyllBootstrap.com](http://jekyllbootstrap.com)
Provides detailed explanations, examples, and helper-code to make
getting started with Jekyll easier.
### Tutorials
#### Integrating Jekyll with Git
- [Blogging with Git, Emacs and Jekyll](http://metajack.im/2009/01/23/blogging-with-git-emacs-and-jekyll/)
#### Other hacks
- [Integrating Twitter with Jekyll](http://www.justkez.com/integrating-twitter-with-jekyll/)
> “Having migrated Justkez.com to be based on Jekyll, I was pondering how I might include my recent twitterings on the front page of the site. In the WordPress world, this would have been done via a plugin which may or may not have hung the loading of the page, might have employed caching, but would certainly have had some overheads. … Not in Jekyll.”
- [‘My Jekyll Fork’, by Mike West](http://mikewest.org/2009/11/my-jekyll-fork)
> “Jekyll is a well-architected throwback to a time before WordPress, when men were men, and HTML was static. I like the ideas it espouses, and have made a few improvements to it’s core. Here, I’ll point out some highlights of my fork in the hopes that they see usage beyond this site.”
- [‘About this Website’, by Carter Allen](http://cartera.me/2010/08/12/about-this-website/)
> “Jekyll is everything that I ever wanted in a blogging engine. Really. It isn’t perfect, but what’s excellent about it is that if there’s something wrong, I know exactly how it works and how to fix it. It runs on the your machine only, and is essentially an added”build" step between you and the browser. I coded this entire site in TextMate using standard HTML5 and CSS3, and then at the end I added just a few little variables to the markup. Presto-chango, my site is built and I am at peace with the world.”
- [Generating a Tag Cloud in Jekyll](http://www.justkez.com/generating-a-tag-cloud-in-jekyll/)
A guide to implementing a tag cloud and per-tag content pages using Jekyll.
- A way to [extend Jekyll](https://github.com/rfelix/jekyll_ext) without forking and modifying the Jekyll gem codebase and some [portable Jekyll extensions](https://wiki.github.com/rfelix/jekyll_ext/extensions) that can be reused and shared.
- [Using your Rails layouts in Jekyll](http://numbers.brighterplanet.com/2010/08/09/sharing-rails-views-with-jekyll)
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