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Create a Personal Website
2:27Create a personal website with GitHub Pages.
I'd like to create a personal
website using GitHub pages, and
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I'm using the end project from the
Treehouse Intro to HTML and CSS course.
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To start, we'll head to github.com and
create a new repo.
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We'll name our repository our username,
.github.io.
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It has to be this exactly or
it won't work.
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We'll add a short description.
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We'll keep it public.
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We won't initialize it with a README,
and we'll click Create Repository.
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Just so you know, for GitHub pages,
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even if your repository encode is private,
the hosted website will always be public.
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Now, if I navigate to my terminal,
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I'll change directories into
the folder where my project is.
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And if I ls,
I can see there's an index.html file,
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styles.css file, and an images file.
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GitHub pages only work for
front end websites, so
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you wouldn't be able to host a Ruby
on Rails or Python app, for example.
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Also, you'll need your main
page to be named index.html.
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Now, we'll run the commands we've been
using to initialize the git repository and
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check the status.
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And initialize empty git repository.
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Looks like we're on branch master,
we've got these untracked files,
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cool, so we'll do git add.,
to add everything,
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git commit- m, initial commit to commit.
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Great, and now we'll add the remote.
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And we'll git push origin master.
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Now if we go back to GitHub and
we click Refresh,
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we can see all of our files are there,
and if I open a new tab,
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and go to realalysonla,
my user name, .github.io,
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I can see my brand new portfolio
site is ready to share.
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If you don't see it right away,
that's also normal.
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Page's sites can sometimes
take a few minutes to build.
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If I make any additional changes,
I can simply add, commit, and
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push them up to the master branch, and
my website will be automatically updated.
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