# Getting Started

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**Read This First**

These pages walk you through the first steps of setting your own webcomic up with comic\_git and are intended to be read and completed in order. 

The steps described in the Getting Started section also **must** be completed before any other section, so please be sure to start at the beginning.
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In this section, you'll learn how to:

* Sign up for a GitHub account
* Create your own repository to store your comic
* Enable GitHub Pages for your new repository so you can publish your comic
* Install GitHub Desktop, which will help you add content and other changes to your repository
* Download your newly made repository to your personal computer so you can start making it your own
* Upload your changed files back to GitHub to be published to the site