From the course: Learning GitHub Pages
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Use Markdown with the GitHub UI - GitHub Tutorial
From the course: Learning GitHub Pages
Use Markdown with the GitHub UI
- [Narrator] GitHub has an advanced file system and interface that lets you do a lot of publishing straight on the website. So let's talk about that GitHub UI and how it helps you manage files. The file system has a full interface for creating, editing and deleting files and folders. You can drag and drop files of many types directly into a repository and it will automatically be added to that repository. There is also an advanced search built directly into GitHub, which lets you quickly find files anywhere inside a repository. Now this makes GitHub itself a viable way to work and manage your sites, and you can even host some simple projects directly in this manner. Let's go ahead and go back into GitHub and we'll create a new project. We'll go to github.new. We'll call this one publishing-github. Let's go ahead and click on add a README file and it'll start with an automatic file already in there. Now we have this…