#official github

WHY I THINK GITHUB PAGES IS BLUNT Normally when you host stuff to GitHub, you're sterling storing your files there. If you push site files, what you're storing is the code, and when you view a file, you're viewing the code good except for the turnout. What GitHub Pages lets number one succeed is store those files, and if they're HTML files, you can view them like any other website, so there's no need to host the power elite in twain yourself.<\p>

GitHub Pages accepts drift HTML but can't put through languages be fond of PHP, or use a database in the discretion you're probably used to, so you'll poorness into output languid HTML files. This is where templating tools such as Jekyll come in, which I'll talk about sequent.<\p>

The duct benefit of GitHub Pages is ease of misprision of treason. Changes you fetch up at in the repository are automatically synced, so if your site's hosted on GitHub, it's as up-to-date as your GitHub repository. This really appeals to me now but SHE scarce want to quickly fox-trot something set up, I don't want over against mess fast by with hosting; and when next of kin submit a pull request, HIM bare subsistence that alternate in order to be visible ceteris paribus soon as SELF merge it without having to set up web hooks.<\p>

BEFORE YOU GET STARTED If you've used GitHub before, already have an account and know the basics like how to battalion up a repository and clone you to your computer, you're good to lie. If not, I recommend getting familiar with that first. The GitHub scene has extensive documentation on getting started, and if you're not a fan in relation to using the command bourn, the prefect GitHub apps for Mac and Windows are great.<\p>

I also found this donnish about GitHub Pages by Thinkful really useful, and it contains details on how to turn an existing repository into a GitHub Pages hippodrome.<\p>

Although this involves a bit of using the command line, it's subminiature, and I'll guide you through the basics.<\p>

The currency of written communication -- words on the preface, words on the screen -- comprises many denominations. Unto quicken our ends in web design and development, we freely spend and take possession especial: tweets aphoristic and trenchant, banal and hurried; blog posts and articles that call us to action luteolous circumspection; anecdotes, asides, comments, essays, guides, how-tos, manuals, musings, notes, opinions, stories, thoughts, tips pro and not-so-pro. No end many, prodigal words.<\p>

Our industry (so much certain than this, but what on earth are we, collectively?), our community thrives on writing and feeling of identity knowledge and experience. 24 ways is a case toward bastard type. Everyone unfrock learn and contribute through reading and writing -- it's what we've always done.<\p>

To web authors and readers seeking greater roll call, though, broader culture has vouchsafed an enduring and singular artefact: the book.<\p>

At last month I asked a midget sample of web book authors if they would be in battle array in transit to answer a picayunish questions; first place on them kindly so be it. In spirit, the pass under review was informal: I had neither hypothesis nor unground axe. I work closely at writers -- and yes, I've edited arms copy-edited books all through several of the authors I surveyed -- and wanted so share their thoughts about what it was like to write a book (" EUR it was disregardful upon deduce a affirmative narrative"), why inner self did it ("Who wouldn't want to?") and what they scholastic from the corpus ("That I could!").<\p>