Help for Students and learners
Learn Exponential: learning paths, your first site, study projects, planned certifications and the Student partner level.
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- Students and learners: start here Where students, apprentices and self-taught learners start with Exponential. Learning paths for editors, ad...
- 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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Publish your portfolio free on GitHub Pages
Build your portfolio in Exponential, publish it as a static site on GitHub Pages at no cost, and show employers both the site and the repository behind it.
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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 Students and learners- 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...
- How to study with the help Study habits that work with the Exponential help - how the help is organized, the read, do, check loop, a study installation of your own,...
- Keeping a study journal A simple study journal for learning Exponential - what to record for each session, a template you can copy, how to keep it in Git next to...
- Choosing a learning path The four learning paths for students - editor, administrator, developer and designer - who each one suits, what you need before you start...
- 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...
- Learning path: editor A step-by-step learning path for future editors, built from existing help pages - signing in, the content tree, creating and editing, med...
- Learning path: administrator A step-by-step learning path for future site administrators, built from existing help pages and guides - installing, siteaccesses and set...
- Learning path: developer A step-by-step learning path for future Exponential developers, built from existing help pages and guides - a development installation fr...
- Learning path: designer A step-by-step learning path for design and front-end students, built from existing help pages - what a design is, the design cascade, th...
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