Quick Start Guide - Poulos for Congress Website

Site Overview

Your campaign website is ready to deploy at poulos.house

• Email: jason@poulos.house
• Google Analytics: G-VGQ6QEDD57
• Repository: /media/jason/Dropbox/github/www_campaign

What’s Included

Pages

• Home (index.html) - Hero section, issues overview, volunteer/contact forms
• About (about.html) - Biography, campaign photos, story
• Issue Pages with extensive research and citations:
  1. AI Worker Protection - UBI, corporate taxation, worker empowerment
  2. Medicare-for-All - Healthcare as a human right
  3. Israel/Palestine - End military aid, Block the Bombs Act, AIPAC/DMFI registration
  4. ICE Accountability - End qualified immunity for ICE agents
  5. Animal Testing - End laboratory testing on dogs

Design

• Colors: Campaign yellow (#FFDB1A) and blue (#1E7FCB)
• Mobile-responsive: Optimized for all devices
• Accessible: Skip-to-content, semantic HTML
• Framework: Jekyll static site generator

Deploy in 3 Steps

1. Create GitHub Repository

# Go to https://github.com/new
# Create public repository named 'www_campaign'
# Then run:
cd /media/jason/Dropbox/github/www_campaign
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/www_campaign.git
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main

2. Enable GitHub Pages

• Repository → Settings → Pages
• Source: Branch main, folder / (root)
• Save

3. Configure DNS

Add these A records at your domain registrar:

Type: A, Name: @, Value: 185.199.108.153
Type: A, Name: @, Value: 185.199.109.153
Type: A, Name: @, Value: 185.199.110.153
Type: A, Name: @, Value: 185.199.111.153
Type: CNAME, Name: www, Value: YOUR_USERNAME.github.io

Then in GitHub Settings → Pages → Custom domain: poulos.house

✅ Site will be live at https://poulos.house in ~1 hour

Local Development

Test changes before deploying:

cd /media/jason/Dropbox/github/www_campaign
jekyll serve
# Visit http://localhost:4000

Make Updates

# Edit files...
git add .
git commit -m "Description of changes"
git push origin main
# GitHub Pages auto-deploys in 1-2 minutes

Key Files to Know

• _config.yml - Site settings
• _data/main_info.yml - Contact info, social links
• _issues/*.md - Issue page content
• assets/css/campaign.css - Styling
• CNAME - Domain configuration (already set to poulos.house)

Need Help?

See DEPLOYMENT.md for detailed deployment instructions and troubleshooting.