Sometimes you just want to set up a quick website and it isn’t feasible to share your localhost. Github pages are a great way to do just that. The following walks you through the setup for a Github page.

Let’s get started:

Create Your Github Page

1. Log into GitHub and create your GitHub repository.
   

2. Give your repository a name and description and then follow the directions for creating your new repository. The github repo for this tutorial will be called gh-data-1
   

3. As part of the setup process you will create a local folder for your project, initialize it for git and push it to your GitHub account. When you finish the setup process, there should be a README.md in your GitHub repository
   

4. In your local repository, create a new branch called gh-pages. git checkout -b gh-pages

5. Add an index.html file in your local repository like the one below – just a blank template with a heading

   <h1>My Page</h1>
   

6. Push the gh-pages branch to your github repo

   git add .
   git commit -m "Create the gh-pages branch and add index.html"
   git push origin gh-pages -u
   

7. Now you can visit your GitHub Page to view your index.html file. http://hoitomt.github.io/gh-data-1/

That’s all for today. We now have a publicly accessible website for free.