GitHub walks beginners through hosting a static website with GitHub Pages, including deploying from a branch or via GitHub Actions, then adding a custom domain and enforcing HTTPS.

Getting started with GitHub Pages for beginners

GitHub Pages lets you host static websites for free directly from a GitHub repository. This tutorial shows two common deployment approaches and the basic steps to publish a site and make it available on your own domain.

What the video covers

• Selecting a project/repository to publish
• Deploying a Pages site in two ways:
  • Deploy from a branch
  • Deploy using GitHub Actions
• Configuring a custom domain for your Pages site
• Enforcing HTTPS
• Quick recap of the workflow

Links

• Gitfolio sample project: https://github.com/github-samples/gitfolio?utm_source=youtube-episode-4&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=gfb-s3-2026

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction to GitHub Pages
• 00:55 Deploy from a branch
• 01:26 Deploy using GitHub Actions
• 02:44 Add a custom domain
• 03:15 Enforce HTTPS
• 03:31 Recap and outro