Help for Individuals
Build a site of your own with Exponential: a personal site, portfolio, blog, family or club site, step by step.
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- Individuals: start here The landing page for people who run a website of their own on Exponential - a personal site, a portfolio, a...
- Static publishing The start of everything about static publishing in Exponential 6.0.15 - a free, fast and safe public copy o...
- Make a free website in 15 minutes The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a fr...
- New in 6.0.15: static publishing Exponential 6.0.15 publishes a site as a free, fast and safe static copy on GitHub Pages or any git host -...
- What static publishing is Static publishing in plain words - a copy of your site as ordinary files, served for free, while editing st...
- Is static right for my site? A short checklist to decide whether a static copy suits your site - good fits such as brochure sites, blogs...
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Your personal site for free
A blog, a family site or a hobby site on GitHub Pages at no cost - write in Exponential on your own computer, publish a static copy, and keep every version.
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Make a free website in 15 minutes
The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a free GitHub account, one token, the setup wizard, a build, a check and a publish.
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All pages for Individuals- Use your own domain Serve the static copy at your own domain instead of github.io - the CNAME file, the DNS records for a subdomain or an apex domain, the DN...
- Static publishing FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask about static publishing - cost, hosting, editors, comments, going back, Exponential Layouts, Sm...
- Create a GitHub account and repository For people new to GitHub - make a free account, create the repository your static site goes to, and make the token Exponential pushes wit...
- GitHub Pages limits and terms What GitHub Pages allows - 1 GB a site, 100 MB a file, about 100 GB of traffic a month, a public repository on a free plan, no shops - ho...
- Our goals: why Exponential exists and why we invite you to join Why 7x and the developers of Exponential keep this code alive and current, what "the problems are already answered" means in features a s...
- Individuals FAQ Short, honest answers to the questions people ask before and while running a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site on...
- Individuals glossary The words you meet when you run a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site on Exponential, each explained in one or two p...
- Individuals reading path The pages an individual reads, in order, from deciding whether Exponential fits to running a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site...
- Is Exponential right for you? Honest questions that help one person decide whether to run a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site on Exponential - w...
- What exists and what does not A plain feature map for individuals - what ships with Exponential for personal sites, portfolios, blogs, family sites and club sites, wha...
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