I know webpages might be a bit oldschool as you might have a social media account. But it also offers full control. You only decide what is stored and also what you want to show, no advertisements and having a CV-page on github is giving a professional impression where you already show that you know revision control just by having an account there.
You will also see that it does not have to be a webpage. It can also be a web-app that behaves like a real app on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and even IPhone and IPads. True multiplatform without the need to make an expensive developer account.
See for example my calculator that works with SI units. SIcalc
The sources are available at
SIcalc
And you can get the sources by typing git clone https://github.com/kilianSinger/SIcalc.git
from the command line.
In general you can host these pages even at your home on e.g. a raspberry pi but step by step. A simple webpage will be enough for now.
Lets make an new account if you do not have it already: Signup
Try to use your university account because this will give you Copilot+ AI guided coding (see later).
Install the github command line interface (CLI) by typing into the terminal (View/Terminal menu to activate it) the commands as described here. Alternatively follow the code tour (wich only works in the source code view of vs-code):
Once you have an account. Lets create a local repository. For detailed description follow the code tour (only works in the source code view of vs-code)...
mkdir mywebpage
cd mywebpage
git init
echo hello >README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
Now we have a local git repository. Next will create a git repository on https://github.com and synchronize it with our local. First log in:
gh auth login
then press 5 times return, you should see:
? Where do you use GitHub? GitHub.com
? What is your preferred protocol for Git operations on this host? HTTPS
? Authenticate Git with your GitHub credentials? Yes
? How would you like to authenticate GitHub CLI? Login with a web browser
! First copy your one-time code: 9113-2090
Press Enter to open [https://github.com/login/device](https://github.com/login/device) in your browser...
✓ Authentication complete.
- gh config set -h github.com git_protocol https
✓ Configured git protocol
✓ Logged in as kiliansinger
now we are logged in and we create a new remote repository (Replace the ACCOUNTNAME with you account name):
gh repo create --source=. --public --description "my webpage"
git remote add origin https://github.com/ACCOUNTNAME/mywebpage.git
git push --set-upstream origin main
git remote add origin https://github.com/ACCOUNTNAME/mywebpage.git
finally create a file named index.html
with the following content
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>This is the title of the webpage!</title>
</head>
<body>
<H1>Recipies
<p>This is an example paragraph. Anything in the <strong>body</strong> tag will appear on the page, just like this <strong>p</strong> tag and its contents.</p>
</body>
</html>
add it to the repository:
git add index.html
and commit
git commit -a -m "added webpage"
now push the content to the github server
git push
now we tell the server to serve a webpage
gh api -X POST repos/:owner/:repo/pages -f source[branch]=main -f source[path]=/
How about making a nice little cooking recipy web page. And try to add some code to it to make it calculate the amounts of ingredients as function of the portions you set.
Now when looking at the result for developing the above procedure would be quite anoying. That's why there is a nice extension Live Server that allows you to life code...