Host Your Own Site

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 use HTML tags directly in markdown
• 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 select Deploy from a branch
• Under Branch select main
• 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 expected site url is https://githubname.github.io/githubname/
• In part 2 we’ll cover adding a theme with Jekyll to our webbed site