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## Prerequisites
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## Prerequisites
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- You need to have a GitHub account. If you don't have on, [sign up here](https://github.com/join), it takes one minute. This is where your website will live - if you sign up with username `johnsmith` then your website will be `johnsmith.github.io`.
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- You need to have a GitHub account. If you don't have one, [sign up here](https://github.com/join) - it takes one minute. This is where your website will live - if you sign up with username `johnsmith` then your website will be `johnsmith.github.io`.
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- It would be helpful to understand what Markdown is and how to write it. Markdown is just a way to take a piece of text and format it to look a little nicer. For example, this whole instrcution set that you're reading is markdown - it's just text with some words being bold/larger/part of bullet points. If you want, take 5 minutes to learn markdown [with this tutorial](http://markdowntutorial.com/).
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- It would be helpful to understand what Markdown is and how to write it. Markdown is just a way to take a piece of text and format it to look a little nicer. For example, this whole instrcution set that you're reading is markdown - it's just text with some words being bold/larger/part of bullet points. If you want, take 5 minutes to learn markdown [with this tutorial](http://markdowntutorial.com/).
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## Build your website in 3 steps
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## Build your website in 3 steps
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### 2. Rename the repository to `yourusername.github.io`
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### 2. Rename the repository to `yourusername.github.io`
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This will create a GitHub User page ready with the **Beautiful Jekyll** template that will be available at http://yourusername.github.io within a couple minutes. To do this, click on "Settings" on the right (the picture of the tools) and there you'll have an option to rename.
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This will create a GitHub User page ready with the **Beautiful Jekyll** template that will be available at `http://yourusername.github.io` within a couple minutes. To do this, click on "Settings" on the right (the picture of the tools) and there you'll have an option to rename.
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### 3. Customize your website settings
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### 3. Customize your website settings
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After you save your changes to the config file (by clicking on "Commit changes" as the GIF tutorial shows), your website should be ready in a minute or two at `yourusername.github.io`. Every time you make a change to any file, your website will get rebuilt and should be updated in about a minute or so.
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After you save your changes to the config file (by clicking on "Commit changes" as the GIF tutorial shows), your website should be ready in a minute or two at `yourusername.github.io`. Every time you make a change to any file, your website will get rebuilt and should be updated in about a minute or so.
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You can now visit your shiny new website, which will be seeded with several sample blog posts and a couple other pages. Your website is at `http://yourusername.github.io` (replace `yourusername` with your user name).
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You can now visit your shiny new website, which will be seeded with several sample blog posts and a couple other pages. Your website is at `http://yourusername.github.io` (replace `yourusername` with your user name). Do not add `www` to the URL - it will not work!
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**Note:** The GIF above goes through the setup for a user with username `daattalitest`. I only edited one setting in the `_config.yml` file in the video, but **you should actually go through the rest of the settings as well. Don't be lazy, go through all the settings :)**
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**Note:** The GIF above goes through the setup for a user with username `daattalitest`. I only edited one setting in the `_config.yml` file in the video, but **you should actually go through the rest of the settings as well. Don't be lazy, go through all the settings :)**
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