How to Create and Host Your First Website With GitHub
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In this article I’ll teach you how to create your very own website and host it through GitHub completely for free. Let’s get started!
GitHub Setup
Firstly, you’ll need to create a GitHub account if you don’t have one already.
Once that is complete you’ll want to create a new public repository with the following name (case sensitivity doesn’t matter):
Now that you’ve created the repository you’ll want to clone it to your local machine with the following command:
git clone https://github.com/<username>/<username>.github.io.gitIf you don’t have git installed you can follow the instructionshere to install it.
Now we can move on to actually creating the website.
Website Creation
You can write your own HTML and CSS to create your website however, for the purposes of this tutorial I’ll be using a template from HTML5Up.
HTML5Up is a place where you can download and use premade HTML5 website templates for your own purposes completely for free.
