Setting up your username.github.io page

username-github-io.md

Setting up your username.github.io Page

When you setup GitHub pages, by default your content is available at https://<GITHUB_USERNAMNE>.github.io/<REPO_NAME>/.

However, if you create a repo with the exact name <GITHUB_USERNAME>.github.io, GitHub will automatically turn GitHub Pages on, and make this content avialable at https://<GITHUB_USERNAME>.github.io/. Kind of like your GitHub home page!

For example, I set up a sample at:
https://github.com/codeadamca/codeadamca.github.io

The repo is avilable as a website at:
https://codeadamca.github.io

This also works for organizations using a repo named <GITHUB_ORGANIZATION>.github.io.

For example BrickMMO has a page at:
https://brickmmo.github.io/

This setup also has the added benefit that your <GITHUB_USERNAME>.github.io website is the root of your other websites using GitHub Pages. So you can place a favicon (or other shared root files) in your <GITHUB_USERNAME>.github.io repo and it will be used by sites such as https://<GITHUB_USERNAMNE>.github.io/<REPO_NAME>/.

This GitHub Pages site uses my favicon.ico file from my codeadamca.github.io site:
https://codeadamca.github.io/about-me/