Creating Websites and Portfolios with GitPages
GitPages is a free platform for hosting your own simple website and showcasing your work to potential employers and clients. In this workshop, we'll introduce you to Git and GitHub, and then we'll provide a hands-on experience with setting up a GitPage website using Jekyll, a versatile website generator that uses markdown or HTML to create static websites with many templates to choose from.
- Date:
- Friday, November 21, 2025
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Sorrells Library, Den
- Campus:
- Sorrells Library
- Audience:
- Alumni Faculty Pittsburgh community Staff Students
- Categories:
- Collaboration & Teamwork CC Communication & Presentation CC Information & Data Literacy CC Open Science Working With Data and Code Writing and Publishing
In-Person Workshop Information:
Directions for getting to the Den of Sorrells Library:
Sorrells Library is on the 4th Floor of Wean Hall, shown on the map here. If you enter in the front of Wean Hall, take the elevator down one floor. When you exit the elevator, the library will be on your left. The Den is in the back of the library.
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