Github Pages (with self repo)

Story

Making a website to show it only on your laptop is no fun. To serve your content, you will need a server.

Luckily, you won’t always need a whole computer to act as a server, but there are many different ways to share your page. Like when you have a static site - which consists only of HTML, CSS and JS (and image) files - there are many options for hosting. One of the most commonly used one is GitHub Pages, GitHub’s own solution.

Let’s clone a test project, and share it with the world!

What are you going to learn?

• How easy it is to use an online service for hosting
• A way to publish a static website

Tasks

1. Create a public repository on Github with the name my-first-github-page then clone the repository to your computer.

   • A repository with the name my-first-github-page is created on Github and cloned into the computer.

2. Copy the starter code from this project's repository to your repository then replace the replace this text in the repository. Commit then push the changes.

   • Starter code of this project is in the my-first-github-page repository.
   • The the replace this text is replaced with a personal sentence inside the index.html file's <p> tag.
   • The change is commited and pushed in git.
   • The commit message is meaningful.
   • There is no typo in the commit message.

3. Follow the official tutorial for a "Project site", and share your project with the world.

   • The modified webpage is available at https://<username>.github.io/my-first-github-page

General requirements

None

Hints

• Documentation is the developers best friend.
• GitHub Pages are available for public, or payed private accounts. CodecoolGlobal is a paid organization account, so you can accomplish this project. If you'd like to use GitHub Pages on your personal repository, it has to be set to publicly available, or you'll need to upgrade your personal account.

Background materials

• Official Documentation