Editing your site

Here are the basic process for editing a page and adding a new page. All steps start from your repository home page in GitHub.

Editing a page

Let’s make a simple change to the homepage (your index.md file).

• Click on the index.md file.
• Click on the edit icon (looks like a pencil)
• Make some change to the text.
• Hit the green Commit button near the bottom of the page.
• Wait a few minutes and refresh your webpage.

Add a new page

• Click the Add file button
• Type in the filename, including a .md extension
• Hit the green Commit button near the bottom of the page

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Edit the navigation bar

Now we need to add the new page to the navigation bar

• Click on the _includes directory
• Click on nav.html
• Click on the edit icon (looks like a pencil)
• Duplicate (via copy and paste) on of the lines that contains a link to a page on your site
• Replace the old link with the name of the page you just created but WITHOUT the .md extension
• Hit the green Commit button near the bottom of the page