Create your own Blogging Website Using Gatsby and Netlify

Prateek Saini
3 min readJul 5, 2020

creating a blog from Scratch Has Never Been So Easy

Are you looking to take your blogging to the next level? Learn very quickly how to create a custom blog site using the best tools and technologies the community has to offer.

Step~1: Go to the Gatsby Template Website here is the link https://www.gatsbyjs.org/starters/?v=2 and select best template which is suitable for you.

Gatsby official template website

Step~2: I am choosing the first template to build the blog. Once you click in this template and you will find that there is a CodeStandBox button after the template ,now you have to click this button and that it will directly got to the CodeStandBox Website.

Step~3: I am choosing the first template to build the blog. Once you click in this template and you will find that there is a codestandbox button after the template you have to click this button like this .

credit: codestandbox.io

Step~4:Once the build is completed your website design is visible in the right frame and you have to change some coding in the left side of the page . First go to the gatsby-config.js and change the property like title , name ,description or images etc.In my case I have changed the title as well as Author name.

Step~5: Now its time to deploy ,if you want to deploy first register user self using Github and next go to the github logo and click the export button like this. Fill the commit block and press commit change and later create the repository in github .Once the github repo is created then go to github and check that it is created or not .If it is created then go to netlify and sign in using github to deploy your website.

credit: netlify website

Step~6: Click on the New Site from Git button and click on the github logo shown in bottom .Now search your repo in the search bar and Simply press DEPLOY SITE Button.Now it will take some time and after that your website is live.

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Prateek Saini

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