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Introduction to GitHub Pages

1:40 with Kyle Daigle and Alyson La

GitHub Pages is GitHub’s free website hosting services and supports front-end files.

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Treehouse Hosting a Website with GitHub Pages Workshop

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    A great way to practice your new Git and GitHub skills and 0:04
    showcase your programming projects is to host a portfolio or 0:07
    project website using GitHub Pages, GitHub's free website hosting service. 0:11
    Pages supports front end files, so HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 0:15
    You're given one site per GitHub personal account or 0:21
    organization and unlimited project sites. 0:24
    >> In this stage, Alyson will cover setting up a personal portfolio site, 0:27
    this is a site you can use to show off your own projects or create a blog. 0:31
    I use GitHub Pages for my personal website. 0:35
    GitHub Pages can also be used to project-based sites. 0:37
    A project page's site can provide documentation for your project or 0:41
    simply let you have more than one page's site for all your different ideas. 0:45
    >> Thanks, Kyle. 0:49
    Yeah, with user sites, 0:50
    you get your own personalized website using your GitHub username. 0:51
    Sites can range from a simple one page static site, introducing yourself 0:55
    as my user page does here, to a blog with a custom domain like Kyle has. 0:59
    In this stage, we'll create a portfolio site using the files from 1:04
    the Treehouse Intro to HTML and CSS course. 1:08
    >> Another cool thing is that organizations can use Pages 1:11
    in the same way to showcase their open source activity, for example, Twitter, 1:14
    Microsoft, and Facebook. 1:18
    >> One of my favorite features is using GitHub Pages for projects. 1:21
    >> It's a really nice way to get more information about an open source project 1:24
    like Font Awesome does here. 1:28
    Or because it supports JavaScript and can use APIs, 1:31
    you can use it to host a fun side project like I did with this simple matching game. 1:33

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