Learning GitHub Pages

2h 39mIntermediate2022-01-03

Authors

Ray Villalobos

Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning

Course details

If you’re looking for an open-core, user-friendly way to publish an app or website, GitHub has a lot to offer. Now, with GitHub Pages, you can get your own site up and running in no time, and you can do it all for free. In this course, instructor Ray Villalobos teaches you how to use the standard features of GitHub to build, modify, and publish content on a simple, static website.

Discover the skills you need to know to make use of GitHub and take advantage of its free features. Start with the basics and get to know the GUI, exploring what it has to offer. Ray covers wikis, repos, and content editing with markdown and GitHub.dey, as well as how to host HTML and static websites with Jekyll and Eleventy. Find out why people are excited about the power of GitHub by joining Ray and learning how to publish your own unique app.

Skills covered

Version ControlGitHubSoftware Development ToolsSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Hosting your content for free on GitHub
02 - Exercise files

1. Using the GitHub Wiki

03 - Create a wiki
04 - Add other components
05 - Use a GitHub repo

2. Creating Pages with the GitHub UI

06 - Use Markdown with the GitHub UI
07 - Edit Markdown directly
08 - Use GitHub.dev to edit

3. Deploying HTML

09 - GitHub Pages
10 - Create code demos
11 - Custom page domains
12 - The user repository

4. Static Sites with Jekyll

13 - Use a Jekyll theme
14 - Upload your content
15 - Images and styles
16 - Configure your Jekyll page
17 - Change CSS
18 - Create includes
19 - Modify the Jekyll template

5. Deploying Content with Eleventy

20 - Eleventy static sites
21 - Build a project
22 - Set up a config file
23 - Add passthrough content
24 - Create Nunjucks templates
25 - Include repetitive content
26 - Expand Eleventy with plugins
27 - Publish your site

Conclusion

28 - Next steps