Deploying Your First Site

How to deploy your first site on Netlify

  1. Netlify homepage
    Visit https://www.netlify.com/ and click the ‘Sign up’ button in the top navigation
  2. Netlify sign up page
    Choose ‘GitHub’ on the sign up page
  3. If you are logged out of GitHub, then log in
  4. Granting GitHub account permissions to Netlify
    Read the permissions and click the ‘Authorize netlify’ button
  5. If prompted to ‘Tell us about yourself’, fill out the information. Note: only the ‘I’m using Netlify for’ question is required, so you can skip everything else if you want
  6. Choose how to deploy your site on Netlify
    Click the ‘Import from Git’ button
  7. Choose your site’s Git provider on Netlify
    When asked to connect a Git provider, click the ‘GitHub’ button
  8. Granting further GitHub permissions to Netlify
    A pop-up window will ask for some more GitHub permissions. Click the ‘Authorize Netlify’ button
  9. Installing Netlify into your GitHub account
    You will be asked to ‘Install Netlify’. If you are prompted ‘Where do you want to install Netlify’, choose your personal GitHub username.

    ⚠️Warning

    Do NOT choose Code Your Future’s account, as this won’t work!
  10. Choosing the GitHub repo to create your site from
    Select the GitHub repo to create a site from
  11. Choosing the branch to create your site from
    Under ‘Branch to deploy’ choose the ‘main’ branch of your repo, which is usually called main. You do not need to change anything under ‘Customize build settings’, Netlify will do this for you
  12. Click the ‘Deploy site’ button
  13. It may take a few minutes before the deploy is complete. Try refreshing your browser, when a .netlify.app URL appears then the site is live

The site is live