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When I go to http://pages.github.com/, I see absolutely no way to make a Github Page. How do you set one up?

EDIT: I know I could probably find the info in an FAQ, if I needed to. My point is that the images on that page seem to show a nice wysiwyg online editor for creating and publishing pages. I'm looking for a big call to action button that takes me there, similar to how easy it is to publish to https://gist.github.com/.

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You create a repo named username.github.io (eg., pkamb.github.io). Put static files in it, and they will become available automatically. More information here: https://help.github.com/categories/20/articles

There's also an "automatic page generator" button if you go to your repository settings, where you can even pick from pre-designed themes :)

https://help.github.com/categories/20/articles

Doesn't it seem kind of crazy that you have to sort through an FAQ to get started? Why isn't there a big call to action button that says "Create a Page"?

I agree. However this is pretty much it for how to do it.

It is quite easy to get started, jekyll is very simple.

Because that just results in the creation, and subsequent abandonment, of a lot of junk pages?

As opposed to the "New repository" button on the github.com front page...

Project pages should come from a project repo. Why would you expect to go to a page and expect to be able to create from there? Do you have a repo / project on Github? Then you would have figured it out on your own.

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