Building a Personal Website with Github Pages Workshop

This will be a one-time workshop on Saturday, October 10, 2015 from 9am-11am. This is not a continuing series.

Finally get your personal website up and running for FREE using GitHub Pages. We'll walk you through using the tool and then spend time actually building your first page!

No GitHub experience is necessary-- we'll walk you through what you need to know!

This workshop will cover:

• Publishing Code to Github with Github Desktop

• Hosting files on Github, with Github Pages

• Building a Jekyll Site

Event agenda:

9:00 - Introduction

9:15 - 10:00 - Instruction

10:00 - 11:00 - Hands-on

Instructor:

This workshop will be taught by Bryan Braun, Developer at Sparkbox. If you're interested in helping out as a teaching assistant, please let us know (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HY_-AaqrEntlMhtdhd77Lno1ZhF_s12T1duZZsPUz2g/viewform).

Prerequisites:

You should be familiar with web development fundamentals (HTML & CSS).

Please bring a wifi-enabled laptop (for the hands-on portion of the workshop).

You will also need the following available on your computer before class:

• Create a Github (http://github.com) account (if you don’t already have one)

• Download Github Desktop (https://desktop.github.com/) to your computer

• Download Sublime Text 3 (http://www.sublimetext.com/3) - the preferred text editor

• Also, as an alternative to Internet Explorer, please install either the Chrome, Safari, or Firefox + Firebug (http://getfirebug.com/) browser.

If you need assistance getting any of these setup on your laptop please come to one of our Code & Coffee events (https://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Dayton/?scroll=true). We'll be happy to help!

Sponsors:

Thanks to Sparkbox for the venue! Also, check out the Sparkbox apprentice program (http://seesparkbox.com/foundry/join_our_team_apply_for_a_2015_apprenticeship), if you are interested in growing your skills and jump-starting your career in web development.

Policies & Guidelines:
All attendees are expected to abide by the Girl Develop It Code of Conduct (http://girldevelopit.com/codeofconduct).

If we have less than 7 students registered for the class as of three days prior to the class start date, we will cancel the class and reschedule for a later date. Any students registered at that time will be refunded their full registration fee.