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My awesome wesbsite

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website

My awesome wesbsite

Create new GitHub account:

  1. Draw on whiteboard: https://_____________.github.io/___________
  2. Open a browser and verify internet access
  3. Go to Github.com
  4. There is a sign-up dialog on the homepage or sign-in and jump to step 10.
  5. Username/email/password – username will be in the first blank
  6. Verify Email perhaps in new tab or on phone
  7. Next screen says Welcome and has 3 steps
  8. Click Continue for free account
  9. Survey – submit
  10. Start a project (double check the email verification and click back)
  11. Repo – website – repo name will be in the second blank
  12. Description and click initialize with README
  13. You are now looking at your new repo
  14. Click “branch: master” and type “gh-pages” exactly. Must be “gh-pages” with a dash
  15. Click “Create branch: gh-pages”
  16. Click “create new file”
  17. Type “index.html” in the field next to “website /”
  18. Type “Hello World” in the main box on line 1
  19. Scroll to bottom and click “Commit new file”
  20. In a separate tab/device, use your username from step 3 and go to https://username.github.io/website (“website” may be different from step 9)
  21. Now that you have a working website, let’s get coding!

Choose a font:

  1. https://fonts.google.com/ for free fonts
  2. Copy link into head of index.html
  3. Copy font family into styles.css

Use Free Images

  1. https://unsplash.com/ for free images
  2. Right-click and choose copy image address
  3. OR upload a new image
  4. Use relative link

Choose colors from:

  1. First link on google: html color palette
  2. https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_palettes.asp

For those without email:

  1. Enter your name @spamhereplease.com
  2. Go to mailinator.com and enter your name to verify the email address