Building Personal and Project Websites
In person
Have you ever wanted to create a personal website for yourself, or a simple website about a project you are working on, but weren’t sure where to start? GitHub Pages is a free service that includes different website templates and is used by many academics for personal and project websites. While it requires some programming skills, it is easy to set up and highly customisable. During this course, we will help you set up your own website with GitHub pages, add content to it, and make small design changes if desired. You will get the most out of this course if you bring a specific idea for your website, which might be your personal website, or a project for a research or other project you are involved in.
This course will be taught by Martin Disley and Somya Iqbal.
After taking part in this event, you may decide that you need some further help in applying what you have learnt to your research. If so, you can book a Data Surgery meeting with one of our training fellows.
More details about Data Surgeries.
Those who have registered to take part will receive an email with full details on how to get ready for this course.
If you’re new to this training event format, or to CDCS training events in general, read more on what to expect from CDCS training. Here you will also find details of our cancellation and no-show policy, which applies to this event.
Level
This workshop requires the following pre-knowledge:
- Basic familiarity with any programming interface, which will help you navigate the course tasks (however we will cover the basics of HTML, CSS, and Markdown during the course)
- Basic familiarity with GitHub https://github.com/
To learn the basics of Markdown, you can have a look at this Programming Historian tutorial.
Learning Outcomes
- Customise a HTML5 Up template with your own content
- Deploy a static site to Github Pages
- Maintain your site using a version control protocol (Git)
Skills
- HTML/CSS
- Version Control with Git
- Web design
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Room 4.35, Edinburgh Futures Institute
This room is on Level 4, in the North East side of the building.
When you enter via the level 2 East entrance on Middle Meadow Walk, the room will be on the 4th floor straight ahead.
When you enter via the level 2 North entrance on Lauriston Place underneath the clock tower, the room will be on the 4th floor to your left.
When you enter via the level 0 South entrance on Porters Walk (opposite Tribe Yoga), the room will be on the 4th floor to your right.
