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Build a Personal Website with GitHub Pages

Discover the services and tools behind a personal website built on GitHub Pages, from Jekyll hosting and CDN to analytics, search, and comments.

🌱 Lvl 0001Apprentice ⚔️ Side Quest 🟢 Easy 45-60 minutes

Build a Personal Website with GitHub Pages

🎯 Quest Objectives

Primary Tech
🛠️ Personal Site
Skill Focus
Devops
Series
Level 0001 Quest Line
Author
IT-Journey Team
XP Range
⚡ 250-500

🎯 Quest Objectives

By the end of this quest, you will be able to:

  • Understand the core concepts introduced in this quest
  • Complete the hands-on exercises and verify the results
  • Apply what you learned to a follow-up scenario of your own design

Note: objectives auto-seeded during framework alignment — authors should refine these to reflect this quest’s specific skills.

Services/tools used for building personal site.

1. Personal Site

My personal website can be accessed through following domains. These sites are all using the same source files.

No. URL Description
1 https://github.com/{{ site.github_user }}/{{ site.github_user }}.github.io Source code repository
2 https://{{ site.github_user }}.github.io/ Domain 1, hosted by GitHub Pages
3 https://travis-ci.org/ CI/CD for {{ site.github_user }}.github.io
4 https://{{ site.github_user }}.netlify.com/ Domain 2, hosted by Netlify
5 https://www.netlify.com/ CI/CD for {{ site.github_user }}.netlify.com
6 https://{{ site.github_user }}.github.io/ Domain 3, hosted by Cloudflare
7 https://www.cloudflare.com/ CDN for {{ site.github_user }}.github.io
8 https://www.godaddy.com/ Domain service for {{ site.github_user }}.github.io
9 https://sharethis.com/ Share buttons
10 https://disqus.com/ Comments service
11 https://analytics.google.com Track website traffic
12 https://jekyllrb.com/ Comments service
13 https://highlightjs.org/ Syntax highlighting
14 https://www.mathjax.org/ JS engine for mathematics
15 https://mermaidjs.github.io/ Charts generated from text via javascript
16 https://lunrjs.com/ Lightweight full-text offline search
17 http://nanobar.jacoborus.codes/ Lightweight progress bars
18 https://www.google.com/adsense/ Google Ads

🕸️ Knowledge Graph

Structured wiki-links connect this quest to the IT-Journey knowledge graph. Open the Obsidian Graph View to explore connections.

Level hub: [[Level 001 - Journeyman Challenges]] Overworld: [[🏰 Overworld - Master Quest Map]] Obsidian docs: [[Obsidian Knowledge Graph and Wiki Links]]

🎁 Rewards

0 XP

🕸️ Quest Network

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