Fork-n-Go

What’s this all about?

Free hosting and a live site in a few clicks.

GitHub’s Pages (free hosting) and fork (copying a project to another account) features are awesome tools that can lower the bar to getting started in web development.

Besides being a tool for tinerking-to-learn, it also makes having a live and hosted website more acessisble to those who may think it can’t possibly be so easy.

I’d love to see Fork-n-Go pages that can be used for non profits and community groups. Tool lending libraries, directories of services…

Designer wanting to get involved in open source?

If you’re a designer and know HTML/CSS then you can create a template site that can be used for open source projects or non-profits.

You can even fork this blank GitHub Pages template to get started!

Sheetsee.js Spreadsheet Fork-n-Gos

Fork-n-Go sites that use Sheetsee.js and connect the site to a spreadsheet make it easy to have your own website connected to your own data source.

If you create your own spreadsheet and copy the column headers from the original, you can then replace the old spreadsheet URL (or key) in the index.html of your fork and start using your own data.

Jekyll Fork-n-Gos

Jekyll is a static site generator (it builds HTML files and has them ready before the browser requests one) that’s tuned for making blogs and Jekyll is supported by GitHub Pages. This means you can use Jekyll on a project and it will be supported by GitHub Pages.

This also means that users can fork designed Jekyll template repositories on GitHub and get going with their own blog in just a few clicks. Boom!