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Note: This guideline is written by Shauna, for Shauna. You will likely have to adapt it to your needs/permissions - please do contact us if you need help!

To create an event webpage in the style of this one:

Building the website
- Create an organization for the school, for example: oh-hogwarts. Make sure the hello@ email address is used for account name.
- Fork the template repository into the organization account and rename to be a github.io page, for example: oh-hogwarts.github.io
- Edit the CNAME record in the template to redirect to the appropriate domain name, for example: hogwarts.openhatch.org
- Customize
  - Change repository name to reflect event
  - Change colors if needed (I like to use school colors)
  - Change text: date, time, location, name of hosts
  - Create a new sign up form for the event (may just duplicate previous ones) and change the link on the website.
- Add, commit, and push changes back to Github.
Set up domain name with cloudflare.com
- Log into cloudflare.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record
  - Go to "DNS Settings" (it's an option in the drop-down in the right-most column)
  - Scroll to bottom of page to add two new records:
    - Type: CNAME
    - Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh-<campusname>.github.io
    - Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>

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 * Building the website
+** Create an organization for the school, for example: oh-hogwarts.  Make sure the hello@ email address is used for account name.
-** Fork [https://github.com/openhatch/oh-campus-template the template repository] (as Github limits the number of forks an individual can make of a single repo, you may need to fork a different oh-campus site or email Github to request your previous forks be made free-standing repositories.)
+** Fork [https://github.com/openhatch/oh-campus-template the template repository] into the organization account and rename to be a github.io page, for example: oh-hogwarts.github.io
+** Edit the CNAME record in the template to redirect to the appropriate domain name, for example: hogwarts.openhatch.org
 ** Customize
 *** Change repository name to reflect event
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 *** Create a new sign up form for the event (may just duplicate previous ones) and change the link on the website.
 ** Add, commit, and push changes back to Github.
+* Set up domain name with cloudflare.com
-* Set up NearlyFreeSpeech.net site
+** Log into cloudflare.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record
-** Visit https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
+*** Go to "DNS Settings" (it's an option in the drop-down in the right-most column)
-** Log in as Asheesh (paulproteus) by clicking "Member Login", etc. (sadly I think only Asheesh can do this due to nfs.net permissions)
+*** Scroll to bottom of page to add two new records:
-** Click "Accounts" in top nav
+**** Type: CNAME
-** Click "OpenHatch" account
+**** Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh-<campusname>.github.io
-** Click "Create a new site"
+**** Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>
-** Type oh-''university_name'' in the site name field
-** Enter ''university_name''.openhatch.org in the "User another name" form
-** Choose "Static content, stochastic" as site type
-** Click "Create now"
-** Visit the site's admin panel in NFS.net, and then "Add a new alias"
-** Add www.''university_name''.openhatchorg as an alias
-* Set up domain name with linode.com
-** Log into linode.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record
-*** Go to DNS manager and click 'Create new CNAME record'
-*** Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh<campusname>.nfshost.com
-*** Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>
-* SSH into linode
-** cp -a old_dir new_dir
-** cd new_dir
-** rm -rf data
-** git clone git://github.com/openhatch/oh-whatever-it-is.git data
-** edit and run ./update_and_push
-*** row 6: change url
-*** row 15: change ssh command
-If you want auto-updating:
-* on ''staticsites@linode.openhatch.org'', edit ~/public_html/index.cgi to add a new repo_url2directory based on the templates you see.
-* on GitHub, configure http://linode.openhatch.org/~staticsites/ as a web hooks URL.
-* Visit http://linode.openhatch.org/~staticsites/ to make sure it prints "You probably want to POST." rather than "Error 500".
-* That should be it.