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How to Use Github Pages Without Git?

Ibby EL-Serafy
3 min readMar 9, 2020

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This tutorial will explain how you can put your website online, for free, using Github.

You don’t need any previous experience to follow along, but you will need a website that you want to publish.

If you don’t have your own site yet, you can use this example HTML page I created. This is what it will look like when you publish it.

Github Pages only works with typical websites that are made up of HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. If your website uses server code like PHP, Python or Node.js it won’t work with Github Pages

What is Github Pages?

Github is a website people use to share their code. It keeps track of all the different code versions, lets you follow other people’s projects and lets people work together on projects.

Github Pages is a Github feature that lets you put your website onlline. You upload the HTML, CSS and Javascript files your website is made up of, as well as static assets like images. Github will then host those for you.

How to publish your website

1. Create a github acount

Open up github and create an account.

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