This is post geared towards users who are not git savvy, and wish to use github-pages to power their blogs. Here is how to create a new post, using just the github interface.

• Login into your github account, select your github.io repository.
• Go to the _posts directory, and click on ‘Create File’
• Fill in the filename in the format ‘YYYY-MM-DD-postname.md’
• Fill in the frontmatter aka metadata, starting and ending with three dashes, like this.

---
layout: post
title: How to create a new post
comments: yes
tags: [posting,jekyll]
---

• Add your post content, and when done, click on ‘Commit new file’.
• Your post should be live. To activate tags, refer to this post