Is there anything better than having a personalized landing page that guides the visitors and allows you to point them towards what really matters? It’s hard to say yes. Luckily, GitHub offers you exactly this possibility and here’s a short guide how I set up my own (personalized) README on GitHub in three steps.1
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To access it, you have to use the full URL as shown in the raw code below.And that’s how the repo looks for me - you just change the README and it pops up as the landing page of your GitHub profile!
I was inspired by the wonderful GitHub README by Monica Powell. ↩︎
Here is an excellent description how to initialize your README. It only works for personal GitHub pages and does not (yet) work for institutions or organizations. ↩︎