Welcome
Write in GitHub Flavored Markdown, pick a template, and publish. You can check out the published branch with:
$ cd your_repo_root/repo_name
$ git fetch origin
$ git checkout gh-pages
If you're using the GitHub for Mac, simply sync your repository and you'll see the new branch.
Details
The gh-pages
branch in your repository is where you can post HTML content, with Jekyll supplements, for site-wide headers and footers without having to copy them across every page, intelligent blog support and other template features like @mention for links to profiles like @johan, the owner of this page. Docs