[throwawayaway12]

I am curious if anyone has advice/tips for getting a simple portfolio up and running. I am a physics phd student who has worked on a few side projects that I would like to showcase. I am looking into Jekyll and hosting it on github, but I am not sure if this is ideal for a simple static site.

[edhu2017]

Depends on how simple you want to get. If literally displaying text once in a while, you don't even need jekyll. If you are a blog writer, want some sort of templating / reusable snippets, or want cool themes then jekyll is good.

[MikeKusold]

You can setup Gitlab for hosting as well. I use Gitlab CI to build my Hugo site, then Gitlab also does the hosting.

This approach gives a lot better flexibility than Github's standard Jekyll.

[aspit]

Github pages is awesome, I would only do Jekyll if you want to host a blog though, otherwise its overkill.

[lbotos]

Seems great if you are comfortable with Jekyll. If not, find one that you grok and go from there.