cbreiss.com — Personal Academic Site

Static HTML/CSS site for cbreiss.com.

Workflow

Edit files → git commit → git push → GitHub Actions deploys to DreamHost automatically.

# Make a change, then:
git add -A
git commit -m "update research section"
git push
# Done — site is live in ~30 seconds.

Add your photo

Drop your photo into assets/photo.jpg. Then push.

One-time setup checklist

Before the first push you need to complete the DreamHost setup:

1. Re-add hosting for cbreiss.com in DreamHost panel panel.dreamhost.com → Websites → Manage Websites → Add Hosting Set domain = cbreiss.com, webroot = ~/cbreiss.com

2. Enable SSH for your DreamHost user panel.dreamhost.com → Users → Manage Users → edit user → set Shell = bash

3. Generate a deploy key (on your local machine):

   ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "github-actions-deploy" -f ~/.ssh/dreamhost_deploy

4. Add the public key to DreamHost panel.dreamhost.com → Users → Manage Users → edit user → SSH Keys Paste the contents of ~/.ssh/dreamhost_deploy.pub

5. Find your DreamHost server hostname panel.dreamhost.com → Websites → Manage Websites → cbreiss.com → shows something like hostN.dreamhost.com

6. Add GitHub Secrets to this repo github.com → cbreiss/cbreiss-site → Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → New secret:

   Name	Value
   DREAMHOST_SSH_KEY	Full contents of ~/.ssh/dreamhost_deploy (private key)
   DREAMHOST_USER	Your DreamHost username
   DREAMHOST_HOST	Your DreamHost server hostname (step 5)

7. Push to main — GitHub Actions will deploy the site.

File structure

index.html          main page
style.css           styling
assets/
  photo.jpg         your profile photo (you add this)
.github/
  workflows/
    deploy.yml      auto-deployment