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Exercise: GitHub Page

A Github page is a static website hosted on Github. In this lab, you will create a Github page for yourself. You can use this page to introduce yourself to the world.

  1. Visit the invite link provided in the Blackboard. Complete the steps and visit your repository.
  2. A GitHub repository will be created for you under our Github Organization.
  3. Inside your repository, create a new page “index.md” in the root folder of your main branch. Give an introduction about yourself. Commit th changes. Alt text
  4. Setup the Github page under the Settings tab. Alt text
  5. Whenever there are changes in the main branch, the Github page will be updated automatically. Github actions will be triggered to build and deploy the page. You can see the status of the Github actions under the Actions tab. Alt text Alt text
  6. After the Github action is completed, you can see the Github page under the Deployments tab under the Actions tab.
    • Click on the link to see the Github page.
    • Your URL should be in the form of https://<organization-name>.github.io/<your-repository-name>/index.html
    • Remark: Your index.md will be converted to index.html by Github actions when it is deployed. Alt text

  7. Add the link to your Github Page and an image to the page. You may upload an image to your Github Folder or provide the URL to the image.

    Example:


![Github Page](https://github.com/[your Github ID])
![An image]([your_image_filename].jpg)