GitHub Pages
Learn how to create a site or blog from your GitHub repositories with GitHub Pages.
Start GitHub Pages Join 10580 others!
Did you know you can host your personal, organization, and project sites on GitHub? With GitHub Pages, you can quickly create a site from your GitHub repositories—a great way to share static content related to your repository like resumes, portfolios, and project blogs.
In this course, you’ll learn how to:
- Enable GitHub Pages
- Choose a theme with Jekyll
- Use YAML front matter
- Customize your site
- Create and edit blog posts
This course has a dedicated message board on the GitHub Community website. If you want to discuss this course with GitHub Trainers or other participants create a post over there. The message board can also be used to troubleshoot any issue you encounter while taking this course.
Steps to complete this course 7
-
Generate a GitHub Pages site
Generate a GitHub Pages site with the automatic page generator.
-
Customize your homepage
Open a pull request with changes to the homepage.
-
Merge your pull request
Merge the pull request that customizes your homepage.
-
Customize site details
Edit the configuration file to display your information.
-
Create a blog post
Create a new file that will become your first blog post.
-
Add blog post metadata
Add YAML front matter to the blog post to display the title and date.
-
Merge your first post
Merge the pull request so your blog post will appear on your GitHub Pages site.
Tags
Average time to complete
41 minutes
Free
All public courses on Learning Lab are free.
Get help
Latest release
Users who took this course also took
-
Uploading your project to GitHub
You’re an upload away from using a full suite of development tools and premier third-party apps on...
-
Introduction to GitHub
If you are looking for a quick and fun introduction to GitHub, you've found it. This class will get...
-
Communicating using Markdown
This course will walk you through everything you need to start organizing ideas and collaborating...