How can you have a fancy Github account?

Did you know that you can change the interface that welcomes visitors, also known as ‘overview’ on Github, as you wish? You can add images and text so that you can make it look fancy. In this article, I will show you how to customize your Github account so you can have a fancy account. Let’s see step by step what you need to do for this.

The first thing to do is to create a repository with the same name as our own GitHub account name.

When you try to create a repository that has the same name as your account, Github will prompt you as follows:

This repository is a ✨special ✨ repository that you can use to add a README.md to your GitHub profile. Make sure it’s public and initialize it with a README to get started.

Do not forget to mark it public and initialize it with a README file as below.