Abhimanyu Borthakur

Abhimanyu Borthakur

Aspiring ML Researcher

Deploying to abhimanyu911.github.io

Deploying to abhimanyu911.github.io

Three files, no build step: index.html, styles.css, script.js. They must sit in the same folder — the HTML links to the other two by relative path.

Deploy into a private-ish subfolder

git clone https://github.com/abhimanyu911/abhimanyu911.github.io.git
cd abhimanyu911.github.io

# pick any folder name — something unguessable is better than "friday"
mkdir -p q7m2
cp /path/to/index.html /path/to/styles.css /path/to/script.js q7m2/

git add q7m2
git commit -m "Add page"
git push

Live at https://abhimanyu911.github.io/q7m2/ in about a minute. That exact URL is the only way in.

Keeping it off your homepage

Three separate things keep it hidden. All are already handled:

  1. No nav entry. Jekyll only adds a file to your site’s nav if it has YAML front matter (the --- block at the top). index.html deliberately has none, so Jekyll treats it as a static file to copy across, not a page to list. Nothing you do in the repo root changes.
  2. No search results. <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> is in the <head>, so Google won’t index it.
  3. No links pointing at it. Don’t add one to your homepage and nobody finds it.

Before you push, worth a 10-second check:

grep -rn "site.pages\|site.static_files" _includes/ _layouts/ 2>/dev/null

If that prints nothing, you’re fine. If your theme loops over site.static_files anywhere in the nav (rare), rename the folder to start with an underscore — _q7m2 — and Jekyll ignores it entirely.

Do not put the folder in exclude: in _config.yml. That stops it being published at all, which is the opposite of what you want.

If Pages isn’t switched on

Repo → Settings → Pages → Source: “Deploy from a branch” → main, folder / (root).

Editing

  • Venue names, blurbs, handwritten teal notes: plain text in index.html.
  • Colors: the :root block at the top of styles.css.
  • The running tally messages: the lines array in script.js.