A GitHub Pages-ready website honoring Helen, born in Chicago and raised by Greek immigrant parents. The site preserves her family recipes and stories, with real photographs of the dishes and a Greek island (white houses + Greek flag) as the site backdrop.
index.html— Home: hero over an Oia village photo, island roots, featured recipesabout.html— About Yiayia Helen, with a flag-and-white-houses alley photorecipes.html— All 17 recipes (appetizers, soups & stews, mains, desserts), each with a photo
├── index.html
├── about.html
├── recipes.html
├── css/styles.css — Greek blue/white theme, responsive, mobile nav
├── js/main.js — nav toggle, scroll-reveal, footer year
├── images/ — locally bundled photos (Wikimedia Commons, free licenses)
└── README.md
All photography is from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, public domain) and is bundled locally in images/:
| Image | Dish / Scene | Photographer | License |
|---|---|---|---|
background-santorini.jpg |
Site background — white church & Greek flag, Santorini | LBM1948 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
oia-village.jpg |
Oia village, white houses & blue domes | Norbert Nagel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
santorini-flag-alley.jpg |
Greek flag over whitewashed houses | Klearchos Kapoutsis | CC BY 2.0 |
tzatziki.jpg |
Tzatziki | Nikodem Nijaki | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
greek-salad.jpg |
Greek salad | Geoff Peters | CC BY 2.0 |
dolmades.jpg |
Dolmades | Sina.ahm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
taramosalata.jpg |
Taramosalata | Robert Kindermann | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
avgolemono.jpg |
Avgolemono soup | Missvain | CC BY 4.0 |
fasolada.jpg |
Fasolada | EUGASTRONOMES | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
giouvetsi.jpg |
Giouvetsi | Robert Kindermann | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
moussaka.jpg |
Moussaka | Andy Li | CC0 |
spanakopita.jpg |
Spanakopita | Fajardoalacant | CC0 |
briam.jpg |
Briam | Benoit5656 | CC BY 2.0 |
souvlaki.jpg |
Souvlaki | Leeturtle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
stifado.jpg |
Stifado | Fajardoalacant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fasolakia.jpg |
Fasolakia | Robert Kindermann (RobertK) | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
galaktoboureko.jpg |
Galaktoboureko | Badseed | CC BY 3.0 |
baklava.jpg |
Baklava | Challiyan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
koulourakia.jpg |
Koulourakia | Mvolz | CC0 |
yogurt-honey.jpg |
Greek yogurt with honey | LeonardKong | CC BY 2.0 |
The attribution line is also included in the footer of every page.
- Push this folder to a repository (e.g.
little-yiayia-helens-greek-cookbook) - In repository Settings > Pages, set source to the
mainbranch,/root - Your site will be live at
https://<username>.github.io/little-yiayia-helens-greek-cookbook/
Open index.html in a browser, or serve the folder:
python -m http.server 8000
# then visit http://localhost:8000Made with love in Chicago.