Managing Sites with Git

Working with Git is a powerful way to manage and deploy your website. It gives you a version history that you can use for historical reference, or to restore previous information if it gets lost. Git deployment pipelines also give you more options for automatically deploying and hosting your website.

Easiest: Clone our Starter Site

Almost easiest: Fork the Starter Site Repo

  • Log into your Github account
  • Point your browser to our Bootstrap starter site repository or our Tailwind starter site repository and click the Fork button at the top of the repo homescreen. This will create a new repo in your account
  • Clone the new repo you just created to your computer
  • Open the downloaded folder in the WebHaste extension

Manual Download: More control

  • In either of the above starter projects, click the green "Code" button and select "Download Zip" 
  • Extract the downloaded file and save it somewhere on your local filesystem
  • Initialize a new Git repository in your folder if you want
  • Open the  folder in WebHaste and begin building your site