Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages

As awesome as these look, am I the only one who thinks that the word "beautiful" (along with "rich") has gotten overused in web design? It's become a buzzword, I think, to the point that perfectly good synonyms or even more descriptive phrases simply don't get used.<p>That's not to knock the substance of the post, much less the work, but perhaps it's just a bit of a pet peeve. Carry on. :)

Surprised the default content of the page isn't set to the readme, if one exists.

It's really great.<p>But it's kinda frustrating that you have to go back and forth between edit/layout... I'm sure they'll improve it soon though - It's just 1.0!<p>I'm liking GitHub more every day (specially since I began using NodeJS and found the plethora of NodeJS modules on GH). I'm happy they are around.

Prediction: Premium GitHub readme templates for $1 coming soon. Possible new category on ThemeForest.

Nice to see them offer this by default.<p>DocumentUp is something similar, which pulls the readme and automatically makes a beautiful wiki-type document for any git repo.<p><a href="http://documentup.com/" rel="nofollow">http://documentup.com/</a>

Are the themes used in the pages open source? They're really awesome designs.

My stumbling block with ghpages is the workflow. I have not found a good way to work with the project in the master branch and then my docs/web-content in the ghpages branch. A lot of time all I really need to do is take something from my master/working branch and transmogrify it and dump the output to ghpages. Maybe its something about my git-fu? Or maybe most people's ghpages is less dependent/tied-to what is in their master branch.<p>Am I missing something obvious?

I can tell I'm going to get tired of "Merlot" very quickly.<p>Looks nice 'till 1000 sites use the same heavy theme.

This looks very nice, but unfortunately I cannot use it because each gh-page corresponds to a specific repo, whereas my project is comprised of several repos and I want one website to document all of these repos at once.<p>Would anybody have any other suggestions for getting a simple homepage for a software project up and running reasonably quickly, without having to fiddle with CSS or JavaScript too much? Something like what GH Pages is trying to do, but maybe a little more flexible. Is something like WP the way to go?

Jesus, that is really special. Using this for next project!

Would be really great if these pages were automatically generated from a project's README. It would also encourage devs to write better README's.

I had a kind of similar idea a few months ago: <a href="http://nhoss2.github.com/gapp/" rel="nofollow">http://nhoss2.github.com/gapp/</a>

What's wrong with the old README.md files. Github should be ALL about the code, not sure I really like these pages

Seems the link to tarball is not correctly parsed if you don't have master branch (this is rare ...).

You can crash it by having a page with empty content.