Hello fams, this post is a response to a request made by a dev about how I beautified my GitHub landing page. For most developers, GitHub serves as a place where most devs spent a reasonable amount of their time.
Prerequisites
๐ Knowledge of markdown
๐ฏ First, you need a GitHub account (of course ๐), SignUp, and create a repo.
๐ฏ Ensure you name it your exact GitHub profile name.
๐ฏ Next, go to the readme.md
and click on the pencil highlighted
๐ฏ Now the fun part, you need a Github readme generator.
Click here to generate readme by rahuldkjain
The Github readme page generator looks like this ๐๐ผ.
Check the languages and the tools in your development and click Generate Readme
๐ฏ When done properly, you should have something like this๐๐ผ
๐ฏ For the image part. Choose your desired image, use photoshop or canva to edit to taste. Then all you need to do is click from your image location and drag into the readme in edit mode.
Here is my GitHub profile after following the steps
drsimplegraffiti
/
drsimplegraffiti
Config files for my GitHub profile.
Hi ๐, I'm Abayomi.
A Software Engineer interested in Backend
Software Engineer
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๐ I regularly write articles on https://dev.to/drsimplegraffiti
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๐ My Portfolio Click Here
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๐ซ How to reach me abayomiogunnusi@gmail.com
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๐ Know about my experiences https://www.linkedin.com/in/abayomi-ogunnusi-974826141/
Languages and Tools:
Dev.to Post
๐ Improve your Github Profile
๐ Download Browser Page as PDF
๐ Expose a local web server to the internet
๐ Web scraping using Node Js
๐ Bash Terminal Guide
๐ Best Practices: Node JS Security
๐ Postman Hacks
๐ Time Zone: Nodejs
How to drag and drop in the readme
Resources
Read me generator
Reference video by
Khushboo Goel
Thanks ๐๐ฝ for reading
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