Editing your site

Here are the basic process for editing a page and adding a new page. All steps start from your repository home page in GitHub.

Editing a page

Let’s make a simple change to the homepage (your index.md file).

Of course you’ll want to add your own pages. The GitHub website does not have an easy way to duplicate files. But we can do it manually.

Click on a file that is a similar kind of page to what you want to create.
Click on the Code icon for that page.
Copy the YML header to your clipboard, including the two sets of --- on the top and bottom
Click the Add file button
Type in the filename, including a .md extension
Paste your YML header on your new page
Hit the green Commit button near the bottom of the page

Now we need to add the new page to the navigation bar. Xanthan makes it easy to edit your nav bar through a simple data file.

Click on the _data folder
Click on top-nav.yml
Click on the edit icon (looks like a pencil)
Even if the file syntax is unfamiliar, it is straightforward. If you follow the same pattern as existing links, you can easily add, rename, or remove what comes with the template.
In this case, you can find an existing header to list your new page under, or make it a top-level nav link.
Hit the green Commit button near the bottom of the page

Moving files within the GitHub interface is a bit annoying; the platform is really not designed for it.

Go into edit mode for the file you want to move
Click on the filename at the top of the edit pane — this is called the file PATH, and it tells GitHub where the file should be relative to your repository root folder.
You can make this path into whatever you want; use / to create new folders.
If you in the edit textbox and you want to edit something that appears before the textbox, just put the curson on the far left of the textbox and hit backspace or delete and you’ll be able to edit it.