pages-gem VS al-folio

It's super easy to publish a static site like the resume with GitHub Pages. Just check out the docs.

GitHub Pages: Host your static websites directly from your GitHub repository.

As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) or Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), hosted on GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or GitLab Pages (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/), would be a good match. If you set up GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to do the build and deploy (see e.g. https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), your normal workflow will simply be to edit markdown and do a git push to make your changes live. There are a number of pre-built themes (e.g. https://themes.gohugo.io/) you can use, and these are realtively straightforward to tweak to your requirements.

Ideal for open source projects, docs sites, and portfolios. GitHub Pages

Github Pages: Link to Github Pages

Once you have all the documentation worked out a place to host it will be necessary. Some documentation generation may have ties in with specific hosting sites. Read The Docs' support for Sphinx and other documentation tools is one example. GitHub pages can be useful for GitHub hosted projects as it integrates well with GitHub Actions CI/CD deployments.

If you use GitHub and need to host a static website, consider GitHub Pages. Free for one site Stored on a GitHub public respository Deploy via web interface, or Git 100GB/month free bandwidth

https://pages.github.com/ https://docs.github.com/en/pages https://docs.github.com/en/pages/quickstart https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/about-github-pages-and-jekyll

There are plenty of other hosting options you could use instead, such as GitHub Pages.

Functionally github.io just presents whatever you throw into the repository as the root directory of a site, github themselves host a very good, basic outline of how to set up a site on github.io.

Jekyll

https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio

Take a look at the ICLR example in that repository.

Since you’re a CS student, you may have some coding experience, so maybe you’d be interested in using this Jekyll theme made for academics, specifically students: https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio

Hi folks! I've been trying to set up a website for graduate school a while now as my old one has outlived it's usefulness but can't seem to settle on an appropriate one. I would really appreciate it if folks could point me to their sites or sites that they really liked! Unfortunately, my search has only led me to the Wowchemy academic and the al-folio themes. Please do comment if you've come across any nice themes/templates/sites that you really like! Markdown support is preferred but I can make do without! Thanks

I think static site generators are by far the best way to go. It reduces complexity and allows you to write in stuff like Markdown so it massively saves time. I like al-folio: https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio

Jekyll website has a great step-by-step tutorial to help you to set up a Jekyll driven static website from scratch. Once you have understood how Jekyll works, you can choose an existing template or themes to speed up the website building. There are plenty of themes in Jekyll showcases and Jekyll Themes which can reuse in your private website. After doing some research I finally choose alshedivat/al-folio.