Introduction

The purpose of this post is to help you create a website to share your work. Sharing your work with the class and the broader community is important, as you should generate a persistent portfolio of class work to demonstrate your abilities when you apply for a job or academic career.

We will be using github to host and share websites this year. This is for a couple reasons:

• Hosting websites on github is free.
• Git is iterative. As your project evolves we can see how it has changed
• Editing content is easy, using either the web interface or windows-based clients.

Procedure

1. Go to Github.com

2. Create an account under the free plan

3. Verify your email

4. Create a new public repository

   

   1. name it your-user-name.github.io (ex: danaukestest01.github.io)

   2. keep other options blank for now.

      

5. Select the link to create a new file.

   

   1. Name it index.md

      

   2. Paste in the following code and hit commit

      ---
      title: Home
      ---
      
      # Home
      

      

6. In the main repository, go to settings and scroll down the main settings page.

   

   1. Ensure that your site is published.

      

   2. Navigate to the linked page (your-user-name.github.io) and check out the results

   3. Now navigate back to the main repository

      

7. Replace the text in index.md with the following code and hit save:

   ---
   title: Home
   ---
   
   # Home
   
   ## Introduction
   
   **Bold Text**
   _Italic Text_
   **_Bold and Italic Text_**
   
   ## Research Question
   
   * Bullet Point 1
   * Bullet Point 2
   * Bullet Point 3
   
   ## Background
   
   ![image caption](https://idealab.asu.edu/assets/images/research/jumper1.png)
   
   [link to background](/background)
   
   ## Results
   
   1. Numbered Point 1
   1. Numbered Point 2
   1. Numbered Point 3
   
   ## Conclusions and Future Work
   
   ## External Links
   
   [example link to idealab](https://idealab.asu.edu)
   
   
   ## References
   

   
   
   

8. Navigate back to the repository

   

9. Create a new file named “background.md”

   
   

10. Paste in the following code:

    ---
    title: Background
    ---
    
    # Background
    
    ## Introduction
    
    ## Conclusions
    
    ## References
    

    

11. Refresh the page at your-user-name.github.io and check out the results