Octopress
From charlesreid1
Some notes on setting up Octopress to work with GitHub pages.
You, too, can have a glamorous GitHub page like mine! http://charlesreid1.github.io/
Setting Up Octopress with Github Personal Page
You can create a repository that hosts static web content and is available at http://username.github.io - and you can use Octopress to deploy the static content from your markdown files.
This whole procedure gets a little lengthy, but my entire procedure is covered here:
Octopress/Octopress with Github Personal Pages
Setting Up Octopress with Github Project Pages
We saw above that Octopress enables you to set up an Octopress directory to work with a Github personal page repository.
But we may also want to set up Octopress for a project page repository - so that we can keep static web content relevant to the project that consists of a project blog and a set of project pages.