Deploy Your Website to GitHub Pages
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  1. 1
    Create A GitHub Account
    There are many different ways to deploy a website to the public Internet. In this unit, we’ll use GitHub Pages to deploy your website. GitHub Pages is a service offered by GitHub. Specifically, Gi…
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  2. 2
    Create Your Repo
    In order to publish your site using GitHub Pages, you’ll need to create a repository (repo) on GitHub. A GitHub repository is an online, central storage place where you can store files and all th…
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  3. 3
    Initialize Your Repo
    Great! Now that you’ve created a repo with the proper naming convention, let’s upload your site to GitHub. We’ll use Git to push (upload) the contents of your site’s directory to your new repo. T…
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  4. 4
    Add the Remote
    Next, Git needs to know what repo will store your site’s content. In this case, the repo will be the one you created on GitHub earlier. To specify the repo using Git, we’ll have to add the _rem…
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  5. 5
    Commit Your Changes
    We’re almost there! Git also needs to know exactly which files should be pushed to your repo. In this case, we want to push all of your site’s content to the repo. This means we will do the foll…
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    Deploy Your Site
    It’s time to deploy your site! Once again, we’ll use Git to help deploy your site. This time, we’ll use Git’s push command and push the contents of your site up to your repo using the following c…
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  7. 7
    Review
    Fantastic! You now have your site published on the public Internet. You can now navigate to your newly published website in your preferred browser. The URL for your GitHub Pages site is: your-user…
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