Hosting a Portfolio Page with GitHub

A personal portfolio is a website that allows someone to showcase their work. Whether it be art, music, or even code, having a personal landing page can be a great place to drive potential clients or anyone in general that may be interested in what you are about and what you can do. Some key parts of a portfolio webpage could be a showcase where you actually display the some examples of your work that yo are proud of. A typical portfolio page will also have an about page where you would share some background and more personal insight to who you are and what you do. There are other things that you could add to the page including contact information and links to external sites such as blogs and possibly published examples of your work elsewhere.

There are a plethora of options when setting up a personal portfolio website but if you are a programmer it is likely that you already have a GitHub account set up so that is what we will be using.

The first thing that you need to do after logging into git is to create a new repo named ‘username.github.io’ so here you use your personal github profile name by doing this, GitHub will assume that this is your personal homepage. Here you could add a description if you want and the click on the ‘Create Repository’ button.

The next step that you would need to do is to actually create the webpage that you want to host. There are tons of ways to do this but since we are probably only doing front end(no database really needed) we can write something quickly or download a template to edit to our personal specifications.