Publish and share your own website for free with GitHub

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GitHub is not only a great place to store and share your code with others but they also offer free web hosting of your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript projects!

In this article I’ll show you how to get setup in order to publish and share your own static HTML website on GitHub using the GitHub Desktop app! 🚀

1. Create a GitHub account

First thing’s first: get yourself a GitHub account! You won’t have access to the free hosting or any other awesome features GitHub has to offer without one.

The GitHub homepage with signup form to the right of the screen. Along the top is the main navigation area. To the left of the screen text reads, “Built for developers” with a description of what GitHub is all about.

With a GitHub account you’ll also be able to chat with other web developers, such as yourself, through Issues, and contribute to other open source projects!

2. Download and install the GitHub Desktop app

This is the app that we’ll use to get our code up on GitHub. It’s easy to use so don’t fret; the user interface is easy to learn!