Create a site with Github/Gitlab

• Choose a template to get started 🚀
• Alternatively, install on your computer

Create your site

After choosing a template above, you’ll be greeted with the welcome screen below.

Click the big Connect To Github button on the welcome screen (or alternatively click the link underneath to connect with Gitlab):

Login with your Github account (or create a new Github account):

Click Save & Deploy to create a repository for your site in Github:

Netlify will now generate your new site. Generally this takes around 1 to 5 minutes, but can take longer during busy periods. You’ll see the green “Published” notice appear under Production Deploys once it has completed.

You’ll notice that Netlify assign a free, random URL to the site. Let’s customize the URL to something more relevant. First click Site Settings:

Click Change site name…

Enter your site’s name, such as your name or organisation name, separating words with a hyphen (-) rather than a space.

Some creativity may be required to find a subdomain that is freely available. Don’t worry about finding the perfect subdomain as later, we’ll register our own custom domain name and connect it with our site.

Lastly, click Save to update our Netlify subdomain.

Awesome! We can now visit the site at the URL you chose!

Depending on the template we chose, we’ll see something similar to the Academic Starter Demo, but without the demo content.

Now, let’s personalize our shiny new site based on our requirements ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Edit your site

Check your (GitHub) email to accept the invite to edit your site in the admin panel:

You will then be prompted to create a password:

Now you’re ready to edit your site in the CMS:

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Next steps

Add content and personalise your site