After the developer creates the repository and configures GitHub Pages, the next step is to load static web resources such as images, CSS, JavaScript libraries and HTML pages into the project.

Ryan Cordell describes how GitHub pages can make creating a static HTML site in Jekyll much simpler for those unfamiliar with the Ruby programming language. Skip to content. ADVERTISEMENT.

GitHub Pages lets you manage content exactly the same way you manage code, ... To initialize the site, first create an index page, either as HTML or Markdown, and push it to the new repository.