hi, i'm Alex.
Host Your Own Site
2025-06-23 | Part 1 - Using GitHub
PT.1 Webbed Site Repository
- Create a new GitHub repository
- Repository name:
githubusername
- *
Public
- Check
Initialize this repository with: Add a README file
- Create repository

- Edit
README.md
file - For github markdown syntax, visit this getting started doc

- For formatting that isn’t supported by
markdown's syntax
or for more complex layouts, you can useHTML tags
directly inmarkdown
- Check out my README.md for inspiration if needed (switch to
code view
for markdown html syntax)

- Save your changes by
Committing changes...

- Navigate to repository’s
Settings > Pages
- Under
Build and deployment Source
selectDeploy from a branch
- Under
Branch
selectmain
- Under
select folder
/(root)
Save
these changes

- A build should be automatically triggered
- Progress can be tracked under the repository’s
Actions
tab

- Once deployment is done, navigate back to repository’s
Settings > Pages
- You should see
Your site is live at
https://username.github.io/reponame/
- Since we created our
repositoryname
like:githubusername
, the expectedsite url
ishttps://githubname.github.io/githubname/