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Have you ever wanted to build a simple website to showcase your portfolio? Maybe you wanted to create a page for your startup? Or you wanted to show off your image gallery of memes?
There are many ways to host your own website, but not a lot of them are FREE and a lot of the time, they aren’t that easy to set up.
Lucky for you, GitHub offers an easy way to host simple static websites!
In this article, we will cover the steps that are needed to set up your first static webpage, and we will create a very simple portfolio that you will have the ability to customize to your liking (assuming you have experience with HTML and CSS). As a note, we recommend having minimal experience using GitHub before you attempt this tutorial. No experience? Don’t worry! GitHub offers many courses to learn the basic commands.
Setting up the GitHub Repository
If you haven’t already, make an account on GitHub! The first step to making our webpage is to create a repository. Click the + icon at the top right, and click new repository.
Next, we want to name our repository.
If you want to apply GitHub pages automatically, you’re going to want to name your article using the following format: [username].github.io, replacing [username] with your username on GitHub.
