Set up your URL

GitHub Pages gives you a few options for where your live site appears:

Custom Domain (recommended)

Example URL: your-custom-domain.com

Purchasing a custom domain is highly recommended. It looks professional, it's easier to remember and type, and it's easy and cheap to set up (.coms are usually only about $10 per year).

To set this up, follow the instructions here. In summary:

1. Purchase a domain name from a reputable service.

2. Point your domain name provider to GitHub Pages using an A record. This is slightly different for each provider; they should have their own instructions on how to do it.

3. Set the custom domain field in your repo's "⚙️ Settings".

User/org Site

Example URL: your-lab.github.io

...where your-lab is your GitHub user/organization name

To set this up, rename your repo to your-lab.github.io in your repo "⚙️ Settings", and that's it!

Project site (default)

Example URL: your-lab.github.io/your-lab-website

...where your-lab is your GitHub user/organization name, and your-lab-website is the repo name you chose.

This is where your live site appears by default when you enable GitHub Pages.

After making any needed changes above, wait a bit (~30 seconds to 3 minutes) for your live site to redeploy to its new location. (You can check your repo's "▶️ Actions" for status.)