I think that all my friends should have a website where they can write about the things they find interesting, about their daily insights, no matter how irrelevant! But I think this might seem as a quite intimidating endeavour to take up without enough technical knowledge, even though in reality it is not all that complicated. That is why I decided to write up a quick guide on how to create a site just like the one I have here. I know that all the different parts of this are nothing that you couldn’t already find manifold on the internet, but I want to ease the process of compiling all this information into a working static site.

This will not cost you anything, as we host the whole thing on gitlab pages. Only the optional domain name could incurr costs, but if you are fine with a domin that ends in “gitlab.io”, this will be included in the free version. Technical knowledge will also not be too much of a barrier. We might have to touch the command line once or twice, but the day to day proccess of working with the site happens purely in a graphical user interface.

What we need:

• A Gitlab account, you can create one here
• Visual Studio Code for editing, install here
• Git, install here - in general, just leave the default options, the only really important part is that you add git to PATH. Optionally you can also choose VSCode as your default editor, but that is not really important. If in doubt, follw this tutorial.