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GitHub Essentials

You're reading from   GitHub Essentials Unleash the power of collaborative development workflows using GitHub

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138337
Length 178 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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GitHub Pages

At the end of 2008, GitHub announced GitHub Pages (https://github.com/blog/272-github-pages), a static-site hosting service. Static sites have seen a significant increase over recent years, and GitHub played a big part in that. A static site is a site that contains pages written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No server code, such as PHP, Ruby, or Python, is included, nor is a database required.

In order to create a functional website hosted on GitHub Pages, you must follow some conventions. Let's look in detail at how to create any of these pages.

Creating a user or an organization page

For users and organizations, a repository named username.github.io must be created, where username is your username or organization...

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