Step 4: Adding a Theme

Let's add a theme to your blog site, @KeithCharlieTaylor!

⌨️ Activity: Select a basic theme

1. Under your repository name, click Settings.
2. In the "GitHub Pages" section, click Choose a theme.
3. Click the theme you want to use and then click Select theme.

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Step 1: Enable GitHub Pages

Welcome to GitHub Pages and Jekyll 🎉!

In this course, you'll learn how to build and host a GitHub Pages site. With GitHub Pages, you can host content like documentation, resumes, or any other static content you’d like.

In this course, you'll create a blog hosted on GitHub Pages and learn how to:

• Enable GitHub Pages
• Use Jekyll, a static site generator
• Customize Jekyll sites with a theme and content

New to GitHub?

For this course, you'll need to know how to create a branch on GitHub, commit changes using Git, and open a pull request on GitHub. If you need a refresher on the GitHub flow, check out the the Introduction to GitHub course.

⌨️ Activity: Turn on GitHub Pages

The first step to publishing your blog to the web is to enable GitHub Pages on this repository ^📖. When you enable GitHub Pages on a repository, GitHub takes the content that's on the master branch and publishes a website based on its contents.

1. Under your repository name, click Settings
2. In the "GitHub Pages" section, use the Select source drop-down menu to select the master branch as your GitHub Pages publishing source.
3. Click Save

After GitHub Pages is enabled, we'll be ready to create some content.

For a printable version of the steps in this course, check out the Quick Reference Guide.

Turning on GitHub Pages creates a deployment of your repository. I may take up to a minute to respond as I await the deployment.

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Step 5: Customize Site Details

Great work! You can see your selected theme in action here. If you don't see your changes right away, refresh the page.

Getting your page blog ready

GitHub added the theme you selected to your _config.yml file. Jekyll uses the _config.yml file to store settings for your site, like your theme, as well as reusable content like your site title and GitHub handle.

You can check out the _config.yml file on the Code tab of your repository.

⌨️ Activity: Modify the config file

Let's change the _config.yml so it's a perfect fit for your new blog. First, we need to use a blog-ready theme. For this activity, we will use a theme named minima.

1. Navigate to the Code tab of this repository, and browse to the _config.yml file.
2. In the upper right corner, click ✏️ to open the file editor.
3. Change theme: to minima and modify the other configuration variables such as title:, author:, and description: to customize your site.
4. Click Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request.
5. Open a pull request.

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