How to Make Your Own Website for Free

Please ask any questions from Issues at the top. I am eager to receive feedback and see where I can improve this project.

How to create your website for free

1. Install Jekyll.
2. Place your photo in /img/profile.png
3. (Optional) Update the favicon /img/icon.png
4. Edit _config.yml to give your name, email address, social media contacts, etc. You can also update the color scheme.
5. _includes folder is basically content part of your pages.
   • You can edit content in /_includes/about_me.html and /_includes/interests.html
6. _layouts is where you keeep the repeating parts of your pages like the template or the html wrapper.
   • You can also edit this part to use different javascript libraries or frameworks.
   • You can redesign this in React even!
7. Buy a domain name from GoDaddy or NameCheap
8. Follow this guide to use a custom domain for your free github website.
   • Put your domain into CNAME file. starting with www.
   • You might also want to contact you domain provider about the dig command.
   • After DNS settings are done with your domain provider, build your website and upload your code to github.