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## Course description

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### Prerequisites:

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(a) taken Intro or Intermediate HTML/CSS through Girl Develop It, or

(b) built and managed websites on your own,

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(a) taken intro to JavaScript through Girl Develop It, or

(b) be familiar with syntax, arrays, conditionals, for and while loops, event handling, jQuery, AJAX requests, and handling JSON responses.


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# Building a Personal Website with Github Pages

Slides and materials are hosted at [http://bryanbraun.github.io/gdi-personal-website](http://bryanbraun.github.io/gdi-personal-website).

## Course description

Many developers are turning to Github Pages for a free, low-maintenance, and programmer-friendly way to build a personal website. In this course, you'll learn the skills and workflows needed to create and host your own customized personal site on Github pages.

### Prerequisites:

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

### Tech requirements:

 - Your laptop (Mac, PC, or Linux are all okay).
 - A modern web browser - either Chrome or Firefox with Firebug installed.
 - A Github account (create one at https://github.com).
 - Github Desktop. Install it at https://desktop.github.com.

**Optional:**
  - A text editor. We recommend [Atom](atom.io) or [Sublime Text 2](http://www.sublimetext.com/2) (both are free; available for Mac, PC, and Linux).

### Topics covered:

This workshop will cover:

- Hosting static files on Github, with Github Pages
- Publishing Code to Github with Github Desktop
- Using Jekyll to create and build a dynamically generated site
- Hosting Jekyll sites on Github pages

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