Choosing a theme to style your page

About four years after the launch of GitHub Pages, GitHub announced the addition of another feature, the GitHub page generator.

This is an easy way to bootstrap a website for your project with just a few clicks. Under each repository's settings, there is a section for GitHub Pages with the option Choose a theme:

When you select Choose a theme, GitHub helps you to create a single HTML page based on your README.md file with a variety of beautiful layouts to choose from, in an interactive step-by-step guide. This will work only on a README.md file that is present in one of the gh-pages or master branches. If ...

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