What will we do in this section?
Creating a community-archive web site has lots of technical steps.
This section covers the individual steps you’ll need to take to
- Create a Github account
- Configure your Github account properly
- Create and configure a project repository, or storage space, for your community-archive files
- Add item information, photos and other parts of your oral histories (like audio files and transcripts)
If you’re comfortable with GitHub and technology in general
Skip to our Expert-Mode setup instructions. Follow those 5 condensed steps to make a copy of our example site and customize a few things for your community.
If you’re not comfortable with GitHub or are new to technology
Proceed through the individual sections listed below in “Setting Up Your Site” table of contents (or the links in the left-hand navigation area underneath the “Setting Up Your Site” link) one by one.
Each of these steps will break creating a website at Github into smaller, more manageable activities.