Chapter 5

Creating a Website with GitHub Pages

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Reorienting yourself with an existing project

Bullet Getting ready to contribute to an existing project

Bullet Adding headers and sections to a website

Bullet Creating a blog using GitHub Pages

In this chapter, you can find effective strategies for reorienting yourself with an existing project, as well as specifics on building a website with GitHub Pages. The examples shown in this chapter assume that you have an existing GitHub Pages repository. If you don’t and want guidance in setting one up, see Chapter 4.

You can follow along in this chapter in order to build a simple website on GitHub Pages or jump around to the various sections to a find out how to do a specific task.

Jumping into an Existing GitHub Project

Whether you’re revisiting a project that you started yesterday, one you worked on last year, or finding a new project that you’ve never worked on, there are quick and easy ways to get oriented with a GitHub project. In this section, you see examples of reorienting with the GitHub Pages website repo that we create in Chapter 3 ...

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