Using GitHub Pages to host your profile page

I've had my profile page up on GitHub for quite a while now, but it wasn't in a state good enough to write about until just recently. For those who don't know, GitHub has a feature called pages which allows you to purchase a domain and with some very minimal configuration, you can host a static site for free.

Here's a peek at my profile page: www.wmanger.com

Here's a peek at the source: https://github.com/walter-manger/walter-manger.github.com?files=1

Basically, the only configuration that you need is supply a CNAME file with your domain in it, do some very light configuration on the domain side and your done. Some people are ditching database driven blogs and using a static blog generator called Jekyll. The GitHub/Pages page has very detailed information on how to get all of this up and running.

GitHub Pages Documentation: http://pages.github.com/

I decided to go with an info-graphic approach with my profile site. There is still a lot of work to be done, but this is a better start than just having a really bad looking page up there.