In order to test out the blog site locally, it appears as if there is a process that can be followed. This can be found here.

It requires installing Ruby. This process can be followed from here.

This allows me to run the site locally to see what any changes represent.

This also allows me to check that all of the right files are generated, specifically the feed.xml that serves as the RSS lookalike. The info for this can be found here.

The bash script which will run the server is:

$ bundle exec jekyll serve