Congratulations
Congratulations! You’ve just finished the GitHub and GitHub Pages workshop.
You should now be able to:
- Understand what version control is and why it’s useful.
- Use Markdown to format text.
- Use GitHub and GitHub Pages to host a website.
- Utilize GitHub Desktop to work on a GitHub project locally.
Additional Resources
To learn more about any particular topic, take a look at the links below.
Markdown resources
- markdown.org’s Markdown Guide
- markdownguide.org’s Basic Syntax Guide
- Markdown Emoji cheat sheet
- Adam Pritchard’s Markdown Cheatsheet
- Daring Fireball’s Markdown Introduction
More about Jekyll
From jekyllrb.com:
“Jekyll is a static site generator. You give it text written in your favorite markup language and it uses layouts to create a static website. You can tweak how you want the site URLs to look, what data gets displayed on the site, and more.”
GitHub pages uses Jekyll to turn your markdown files (hosted in your GitHub repo) into HTML files and presents them on your desired website.
- To learn more about Jekyll, visit its web page or the Jekyll project on GitHub.
Some websites to find themes for Jekyll are listed below.