I am new to Jekyll and just trying to start a Jekyll Theme example. I tried a few other themes too and all of them only load up at port 4000 with basic text and no images/styling.
The server starts and I can look at the page but it is very ugly without the styling.
I know I can change the variables and configurations but I just wanted to run this as it is first. I can see all the images and in the images folder but why is this not being loaded on the blog?
I am new to Jekyll so please let me know if there is something wrong with this. Jekyll serve is the correct way to start the server right?
Have you updated the URL in _config.yml? This is used to build the links to the CSS and scripts.
When working locally you should comment it out. If you haven't already open _config.yml and change
url: http://your-site.com
to
#url: http://your-site.com
When you publish to a live site uncomment the line and update the url.