Map Time Session 1: Github Pages

Please write your name and university affiliation below, plus amount of github pages knowledge.

What are Pages?

According to Github

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GitHub Pages are public webpages hosted and easily published through GitHub. The quickest way to get up and running is by using the Jekyll Theme Chooser to load a pre-made theme. You can then modify your GitHub Pages’ content and style remotely via the web or locally on your computer.

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What are Pages?

• Git Pages provides …
  • Resumes, project pages, etc web content
  • 100 gb of storage per repo
• Workshop structure
  • Additional information
  • Hands on time!
• Take Aways
  • Your very own Git Page

Examples

Again these pages can be used for

• Blogs
• Project documentation
• Books
• Wikis
• Personal websites
• Professional portfolios

Examples of Pages

• The Research Technologies Data & Visualization team’s Demos & Documentation
• Map time chapters around the globe (Country?) MapTime
• Random search for geospatial github pages
  • Benny Cheung
  • Zimbabwe GeoSpatial Data
• Loads of others: Example Collection

Getting Started on your own page

“But I found a really cool page, and if it just had a few tweaks it’d work great for me”

That’s the idea!

Forking

“copy a pre-existing repository (definition: a project) on github to your own account”

• Enables efficient initialization of github related projects

First steps

• Go to this link https://guides.github.com/features/pages/

Advanced options

• Configuring your theme ! not sure what info to add here as it is uknown to me

Advanced options

• Project pages
  • create new repository
  • go to settings
  • set up gitpages hosting
  • go to “username.github.io/my-new-repo” to see the result
  • modify with glee!

Go forth and Page!

QUESTIONS?