Enhancing your website with GitHub’s easy editing features

Let’s dive a bit more into how you can edit your one-page portfolio website using GitHub’s handy editing features. Besides the traditional way of editing files on your computer and then pushing the changes to GitHub, you’ve got some quicker, user-friendly options right on GitHub!

Direct editing on GitHub – quick and easy

Instead of going through the process of editing files on your computer and pushing them to GitHub, you can use GitHub’s Edit files feature. It’s like having a quick-edit button for your website’s files.

So, how does it work?

Simply navigate to the file you want to change in your GitHub repository – for example, index.html or style.css. Click the pencil icon to start editing right there in your browser, or even better, just press E on your keyboard – the file will be ready for editing:

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