Wrapping up#

Congrats! You now have a simple to maintain long term website. It takes a little bit more thinking to get started, but you have full control, it is free, and it is not vulnerable to attacks.

There are two main things to consider, maintaining and taking ownership.

Maintaining#

To maintain, this webiste will always be here. I will update it and add more details/resources any time I teach the workshop. I am committed to your success, so I will mark clearly in text if there are things that I add here that do not apply to previous participants.

Also, the repo is set up to be pretty well documented. You can go into the site and refresh what you need.

Launching your site#

As is, your site is “owned” by the github organization ml4sts-outreach and your site is visible online at: ml4sts-outreach.github.io/nsbe50-profile-username. I did this for two reasons:

We can help you during the workshop
Your site is not your “official” profile until you are ready

However, you have full admin access to your repo, so you can take ownership and make it your own. This will also mean that I would no longer have direct edit access to your site.

To do this:

transfer ownership to yourself
rename the repository to username.github.io but with your actual github username in place of username.
(otionally) Buy a custom domain and set up to use your custom domain

After the first two steps, you will be able to see your website at username.github.io instead of ml4sts-outreach.github.io/nsbe50-profile-username.

I buy and manage my domains from namecheap but there are many others you can use. The only requirement is that whatever domain provider you choose to buy from gives you DNS panel access, so that you can complete step 3 above.