Where to go From Here

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Congratulations! At this point, following all of the steps, you likely have all the basics up and running.

So, what’s next?

• You’ll typically be writing your posts in Markdown, an amazing language for things like this once you’re used to it. This tool uses what’s called GitHub-flavored Markdown. Here’s a great, quick intro to GitHub Markdown.
• The Minimal Mistakes theme has great docs. We recommend reading through all of the topics, where you’ll learn about the theme and how to override it, great tricks for working with posts / pages / collections, different helpers and classes, etc.
• You may also want to read up on Jekyll via the Jekyll docs. This goes through some of the basic concepts that the blog engine uses, like front-matter, Liquid templates, includes, layouts, etc.
• Jekyll uses the Liquid template language; if you’re digging deeper into layouts and includes, it might be beneficial to read the Liquid docs.

The above might seem like a lot, but we promise you won’t need to master it to create great things.