How-To Create a Website or Blog on GitHub for Free

[amazinghorse]

So you want to launch a simple website but don’t want to have to go through the dull process of setting up yet another hosting package. There is an easier solution. If you just want to launch a simple static website you can use GitHub Pages to host your site for free.
 

Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of. Simply clone or fork Octopress, install dependencies and the theme, and you're set.

 

Octopress comes with:

• A semantic HTML5 template
• A Mobile first responsive layout (rotate, or resize your browser and see)
• Built in 3rd party support for Twitter, Google Plus One, Disqus Comments, Pinboard, Delicious, and Google Analytics
• An easy deployment strategy using Github pages or Rsync
• Built in support for POW and Rack servers
• Easy theming with Compass and Sass
• A Beautiful Solarized syntax highlighting

Getting Started with Octopress

 

http://octopress.org/

[thegamer]

GitHub its the developper paradice . its an amazing tool

[volekay]

This sounds amazing as I found it very much useful and informative to be honest. Also, I have gone through this post which definitely helped me out a lot as a new member I am looking forward for more such discussions.