There is a TON of documentation that can take you through the most basic of setting up GitHub pages and the most advanced. The best advice I can give you, as a noob, is to read the documentation. https://pages.github.com/ More on reddit.com

I also made a Github pages blog a couple of daye ago with hugo using double repo style. Here you can see how the blog looks and if you wan't send me private mesage so that I can help you. Crony Tips I do have only 2 blogs on my site but it is a start. More on reddit.com

Wow... OK, my skim level set to 11.

I'd focus my time looking a Jekyll templates for what you need. There are only a small set of templates included in the github pages selection, but if you fork the template you can use any of the templates provided by the community.

http://jekyllthemes.org/

https://jekyllthemes.io/

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I'm using Github Pages exactly for the same purpose, you can check my blog: https://blog.ignytis.eu/ . It's almost inactive (It takes too much time to write an article properly), but might be an example. It uses Hugo + Github Actions to compile a static website. I'll try to answer some of questions: As I understand it is totally free. Yes; no need to use any paid plan It supports only static sites made from raw HTML/CSS. Yes, static HTML, CSS, JS and media assets For business - big no no. Not sure, but I think if you are going to host a coding blog then business side is likely out of scope Am I allowed to put other links like to discord servers or PayPal donations? I don't think it's restricted. Devs (mostly frontenders and designers) use Github Pages to host personal pages with portfolio, and contacts are typically added there If the bandwidth is exceeded am I expected to pay additional fees? Because one thing I hate about cloud is that when your site limitations are exceeded, they charge you additional fees rather than closing or limiting your service. No idea about limitations on traffic. I guess there's some reasonable usage policy, like you cannot upload gigabytes of media and host an online platform with thousands of requests per second. Static websites are cheap to serve (in sense of resource usage), so you'll unlikely exceed any limits if you just host a blog with few visitors Are there advantages over using Blogger or other blog services? I've noticed that GitHub Pages blogs are much better indexed on the search engines. The biggest advantage IMO is that design of your blog is not limited to templates provided by blog services; you can build any UI that you want. Also you can upload (well, "git push", to be more precise) images; the last time I used Blogger only text was available for publishing, but images had to be uploaded to 3rd party services. Medium allows to upload images though. One more advantage for me is that Github Pages is more simple for me as developer to edit. I just edit and push the code; no navigation across admin panel and clicking any buttons in Web UI is needed. And yeah, you have a revision history in Git. I can't agree on the point about indexing though. I duplicate my articles to Medium, and Google Search returns only links to medium; no links to my blog in results. So my experience with indexation is rather negative. Are there really any hidden cons? One con on my mind is about writing articles in blogs. A repository attached to your website is public. If you have any drafts and you want to make a backup by pushing them to Github then draft will be available for public. If you are not concerned about public availability of drafts / WIP / unpublished articles and edits then it mustn't be an issue More on reddit.com