Getting Started with GitHub

## Welcome to your repository!

In this repository ^{[:book:](https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary/#repository)}, you’ll learn how to write with Markdown ^{[:book:](https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary/#markdown)}, a simple and widely used markup language for formatting text. Here, you’ll start building a static webpage for your customized portfolio.

### What is Markdown?

Markdown is a lightweight syntax for writing all types of communication on GitHub, as well as many other places on the web. You can format words as **bold** or _italic_, add images, and create lists. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text combined with a few non-alphabetic symbols, such as `#` or `*`. You can use Markdown with the formatting toolbar in issues ^{[:book:](https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary/#issues)} and pull requests ^{[:book:](https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary/#pull-request)}, or you can learn the syntax and type it yourself.

You can use Markdown most places around GitHub:

- Comments in issues and pull requests (like this one!)
- Files with the `.md` or `.markdown` extension
- Sharing snippets of text in [Gists](https://gist.github.com/)

For more information, see “[Writing on GitHub](https://help.github.com/categories/writing-on-github/)” in the _GitHub Help_.

Let's get started!