Metahistory Addition Guide

This guide is useful ONLY AFTER you have followed the directions for setting up your Metahistory repository AND have done some Metahistory revisions.

Before proceeding, make sure you have your own copy of the Metahistory repository, and you can see the functioning website based on YOUR repository in YOUR GitHub account (the URL will look like https://github.com/USERNAME/metahistory/).

Save time with bookmarks

Create bookmarks in your browser for two locations you will be visiting often:

Grab the sample page

Test your page

Troubleshootoing

If your page never appears, check these in the following order:

Page build errors

If you commit a file with a syntax error (a missing quote or something like that), you should get an email from GitHub saying you have a “page build error”. Until you fix it, you won’t see any subsequent changes you save on your online version.