How to Use GitHub Pages in 2025! (Beginner's Guide)

[@thecommoncoder]

What else would you like to learn about GitHub Pages? Let me know! 👇

[@drmcgoodtimes]

I was struggling trying to figure out how to actually get the build started, but the toggling from main to none and back got it up and running. Thanks for the tip, I was really pulling my hair out.

[@thecommoncoder]

Nice! Glad the video was helpful. 🙂

[@Asmousdeous]

thank you so much. al those other vidoes were so hard to understand and took me hours of work and eventually failed but with your video i was ablo to do it under 10 minutes

[@thecommoncoder]

That’s awesome! I’m glad the video was helpful. 😊

[@yilmazumit]

Thank you. This is a clean and simple tutorial that I was looking for.

[@thecommoncoder]

You’re welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful. 🙏

[@BytesByBlinken]

thanks. I was able to deploy my first page this way. Love the video

[@thecommoncoder]

That’s awesome! Glad it was helpful. 😊

[@TechHut]

Weird question, what front is that during your explanation on excaildraw?

[@thecommoncoder]

Are you talking about the font? If so, I believe it’s called Virgil, but they also have their own called Excalifont which is pretty similar. Thanks for watching! 🙏

[@TechHut]

@@thecommoncoder font yes, haha sorry for the typo. Thanks a ton :)

[@thecommoncoder]

@TechHut Anytime! 😊

[@andreea_mc]

This was super helpful thanks!

[@thecommoncoder]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching. 🙏

[@EoghanMurphy-dc8os]

Hi, I have followed your steps in the video and i am trying to upload my page i made to github pages. I have the repo created and have done all that is necessary to deploy the site to github pages. I have multiple HTML pages in a folder along with an Assets folder for CSS and images and another includes folder for the footer and nav bar and finally a javascript folder as well. My index file is in the root part of my repo and i can click onto my github pages site but when i do it doesnt load the CSS and when i click buttons to go to different pages it gives me a 404 error, the whole website works just fine in a live server on VSC so i am just wondering on the off chance if you could help me or tell me what i am doing wrong, thanks.

[@thecommoncoder]

It sounds like the file paths aren't resolving correctly in GitHub Pages. If I remember correctly, the GitHub Pages server is a bit picky when it comes to resolving file paths. Would you mind sharing your GitHub Repo URL and a the URL to the deployed site on GitHub pages?

[@lynmkeful]

I appreciate this video, I am a beginner, and I got to step 1,a, getting the new repository name and I checked Readme file. I don't know what is happening after 2.25 timeline...where did the html, java, csv files come from...what are the contents? I have not used these before. My goal is a github page showing my publications and a photo or two. Please help.

[@thecommoncoder]

Those are examples files I created for this demo video. GitHub pages is designed to host static HTML websites, so you’ll need some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and GitHub in order to use it effectively. If you are familiar with HTML and CSS, I created another video on how to upload your project to GitHub that might be helpful: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iom5aWB_jZd5jqcsi=r-A68SBX_MN6LL8z Hope that helps!

[@TheKingofparis148]

good content like the video gained a sub! will watch more of your content

[@thecommoncoder]

Thanks for the sub! 🙏 I'll be making a video soon about essential Git commands when working with GitHub, which will include things like "git clone", "git pull" and "git push".

[@akulalaxmi-pr1ng]

Can I host my django project on github pages?

[@thecommoncoder]

Great question! GitHub Pages can only host static HTML sites. Since Django requires a Python backend, it unfortunately won’t work on GitHub Pages. I don’t know much about how Django works, but if you can separate the front-end and back-end (essentially a static site with a python backend), you could theoretically host the HTML on GitHub Pages and then point it to wherever your API is running. Thanks for watching! 🙏

[@mitchellrcohen]

Thanks!

[@thecommoncoder]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Psychokiller9723]

Very good video

[@thecommoncoder]

Thanks! Glad it was helpful. 😊

[@lukejarvis-se5bz]

Thanks man

[@thecommoncoder]

No problem. Hope it helped!

[@samuelstefansalvatierra6894]

do you need to upgrade your github to access pages?

[@thecommoncoder]

Nope! You can use GitHub Pages with a standard GitHub account. That's what I'm using in this video. 😁

[@virgiltako419]

I saw nothing in action section how can I do I have two file html ans css

[@thecommoncoder]

As long as you’re working with static HTML & CSS, the gh-pages deployment and the GitHub actions deployment should work with GitHub Pages. I’d double check your file structure to make sure it resembles what is in the demo. Hope that helps!

[@virgiltako419]

@@thecommoncoder I just created another github account and it's work well, I don't know what is wrong with me old account created in 2021 😔😔😶

[@georgelep7031]

Please do one custom Domains

[@thecommoncoder]

I've got that in the queue!

[@necggry5396]

Very bad tutorial you literally skipped the most important step

[@thecommoncoder]

Which step?