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 ## GitHub Pages
 
-GitHub Pages is a simple service to publish a website directly on GitHub from a Git repository.
+GitHub Pages is a service for publishing a website directly on GitHub from a Git repository.
 You add some files and folders to a repository and GitHub Pages turns it into a website.
 You can use HTML directly if you like, but they also provide Jekyll,
-which renders Markdown into HTML and makes it really easy to setup a blog or a template-based website.
+a tool that can build a blog or a template-based website from a set of Markdown files.
 
 ### Why GitHub Pages is awesome!