Required resources

• GitHub Account
• Computer (Mac would be ideal)
• Firefox or Chrome web browser
• GitHub for Mac or GitHub for Windows downloaded and installed.
  • https://mac.github.com/
  • https://windows.github.com/

Nice to have resources

• PDF of your CV
• Image of yourself
• Links to your other resources (Twitter, GitHub, Linkedin)

Site Templates

• Aerial http://rhartsock.github.io/aerial
  • https://github.com/rhartsock/aerial
• Astral http://rhartsock.github.io/astral
  • https://github.com/rhartsock/astral
• Highlights http://rhartsock.github.io/highlights
  • https://github.com/rhartsock/highlights
• Read-Only http://rhartsock.github.io/read-only
  • https://github.com/rhartsock/read-only
• Prologue http://rhartsock.github.io/prologue
  • https://github.com/rhartsock/prologue
• Miniport http://rhartsock.github.io/miniport
  • https://github.com/rhartsock/miniport
• Strata http://rhartsock.github.io/strata
  • https://github.com/rhartsock/strata

Procedure

Starting the Site

1. Make a GitHub account. [The URL to your site will include your username] http://github.com
2. Login to your GitHub account and choose one of the templates above. Open the second bullet point link in a new tab.
3. Press the Fork button in the top right of the screen to create your own copy of the site.
4. Choose the settings tab on the right side of the screen.
5. Change the Repository name to username.github.io
6. The template site should now be live at username.github.io
7. Change the Default Branch to master

Editing the Site

1. In the repository for the site (username.github.io) you will see several files. Select "index.html".
2. From this screen you can edit the source code for your site by clicking the pencil at the top of the screen.
3. Before editing, make sure the master branch is the one you are editing.
4. In the source code for the site, there are several prompts, (NAME HERE, ABOUT ME PARAGRAPH, ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY).
5. Replace these with the appropriate information.
6. When you are ready to see your changes, select the "Commit Changes" button at the bottom of the page.
7. In a new tab navigate to username.github.io
8. Your changes may take a few seconds to appear, so try refreshing the page.

Adding a Publication

1. Find the Publications section in the source code.
2. Change the TITLE text to the title of the publication.
3. Add a short description in the appropriate space.
4. find the href="" near the TITLE and add a link to your publication in the quotes.
5. Repeat for additional publications.

Linking to Additional Sites [Twitter, Linkedin, GitHub, Email]

Email

1. Find the Additional Resources section in the source code.
2. Find the Email label and the href="".
3. Replace the text inside the "" with mailto:your_email_address

Social/Professional Network sites

1. Find the Additional Resources section in the source code.
2. Find the label for the network you want to add and the href="".
3. Replace the text inside the "" with the link to your page. [ie. https://twitter.com/rhartsock_]
4. Repeat for additional networks.

Adding your CV and Image

1. On the overview page for your site repository select the "Clone in Desktop" button on the right side.
2. This will open the project in the GitHub for Mac/Windows software.
3. Under the "Repository" menu at the top, select open in finder.
4. Add the pdf of your CV and your image to the folder.
5. Close Finder and return to the GitHub for Mac/Windows tool.
6. You should see the new files under the changes section.
7. Add a commit message and select "commit to master"
8. In the top right select the "sync" button. This will push your local changes to your GitHub site.
9. You can repeat this process for any additional files you have to add.
10. Return to the source code for your page in yout web browser and select edit again.
11. Find the label for CV under additional resources and change the text inbetween the href="" to the name of your cv file (ie. cv.pdf)
12. Find the images label and change the contents between the "" in src="" to be the name of your image (ie. selfie.png)
13. Commit the changes with the button at the bottom of the page and check yout page.