You don't have to reinvent the Web site to publish some documentation for your project. Take advantage of GitHub Pages to build almost point-and-click doc sites.

Ryan Cordell describes how GitHub pages can make creating a static HTML site in Jekyll much simpler for those unfamiliar with the Ruby programming language.

Using GitHub Pages to host the URL shortening website itself, [nelsontky] actually repurposes GitHub’s issue tracking system to map the shortened identifier to the original URL.