Creating a GitHub (README.md) Profile

Create a New Repository

Take above image as reference. You need to create a repository with same name as your github username. Which in my case is aasisodiya. As soon as you enter the correct username you will receive a message from github as shown in above image. Give it a description and strictly keep it Public else it won’t work. Followed by Select Initialize this repository with a README. Then click on create repository. Voila! and you are done.

You will be able to see a new repository with your account name. Below is the image of my repository.

Now lets get to work. As you can see this default template is very basic. Hi there 👋 !? So you will have to customize it to suite your profile.

Below are some interesting things you can add to your README.md file

Note: You will have to replace user specific info in below code with your own data. For ex. aasisodiya will get replaced with your_profile_name.

Badges

Code	Output
 set LABEL=label, MESSAGE=message and COLOR=orange
 set LABEL=label, MESSAGE=message and COLOR=orange
 set LABEL=label, MESSAGE=message, COLOR=ffa500, style are of 5 types given below, logo can be chosen from link below, logoColor=violet, logoWidth=30 and labelColor=black

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![Alternate Text](https://img.shields.io/badge/<LABEL>-<MESSAGE>-<MESSAGEBGCOLOR>?style={style}&logo={logo}&logoColor={logoColor}&logoWidth={logoWidth}&labelColor={labelColor})

Parameter	Description
Alternate Text	Alternate Text is displayed when image fails to load
LABEL	LABEL is the left side of the badge
MESSAGE	MESSAGE is the right side of the badge
COLOR	COLOR is the background color of right side
style	style is the look of the badge (details given below)
logo	logo is the name of the company you want to display the logo for
logoColor	logoColor is the color of the logo
logoWidth	logoWidth is the width of the logo
labelColor	labelColor is the color of the left side of the badge

Values for style that you can use in above code

Style	Output
plastic
flat
flat-square
for-the-badge
social

For Logo visit this link Logo List

Badge Type	Output	Code
With Label		
Without Label		

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Github Specific Badges

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Social Media Badges

Output	Code
	

Visitor Badge

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Creating a Collapsible Div

Title

Content

You can generate a collapsible div by using below code

<details>
<summary>Title</summary>
<pre>Content</pre>
</details>

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Github Profile Trophy

You can show a bunch of trophy for your github profile using below code. For Details visit this link

![trophy](https://github-profile-trophy.vercel.app/?username=aasisodiya&theme=juicyfresh&no-frame=false&row=2&&margin-w=20&no-bg=false)

Github Stats

Below code will help you display your github stats

![My github stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=aasisodiya&count_private=true&show_icons=true&theme=radical)

Github Repo

Below code helps you to insert your repository card in Markdown

![ReadMe Card](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/pin/?username=aasisodiya&repo=general)

Github Most Used Languages

Below code will help you display your Most Used Languages

![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=aasisodiya)

Below code will help you display your Most Used Languages but in compact way

![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=aasisodiya&layout=compact)

Github Streak

You can display your streak in Github using below code

![GitHub Stats](https://github-readme-streak-stats.herokuapp.com/?user=aasisodiya)

Github Skyline

Create a 3D model of your Github Contributions into a Skyline using GitHub Skyline

Sample of 3D model will look like the one given below

Github Profile Visitor Counter (Hits)

As shown above, below code will help you display how many visitors are viewing your Github, Website, Notion.

![Hits](https://hits.seeyoufarm.com/api/count/incr/badge.svg?url=https://github.com/your-profile-id)

Markdown code for above counter is given below

![Visitors](https://profile-counter.glitch.me/your-profile-id/count.svg)

Last Updated Tag

below code will help you display when was last commit made to the repo, as shown above. Where aasisodiya is your github id, general is your repo name, and master is your branch name.

![Last updated](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/aasisodiya/general/master?label=Last%20updated&style=for-the-badge)

Reference

• Shields.io
• SimpleIcons.org
• Waka Readme
• Managing your profile README
• Basic writing and formatting syntax
• Complete list of github markdown emoji markup
• Visitor Badge
• GitHub Skyline
• Hits