--- title: How I built my GitHub profile README with animated... description: A walkthrough of building a GitHub profile README that serves as a developer's landing page. Covers design decisions including animated headers using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-my-github-profile-readme-with-animated-headers-stats-and-featured-projects-a-practica-pictv2auh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I built my GitHub profile README with animated headers, stats, and featured projects. A practical guide for developers. | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of building a GitHub profile README that serves as a developer's landing page. Covers design decisions including animated headers using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-my-github-profile-readme-with-animated-headers-stats-and-featured-projects-a-practica-pictv2auh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PiCTv2AuH.png og:image:alt: How I built my GitHub profile README with animated headers, stats, and featured projects. A practical guide for developers. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I built my GitHub profile README with animated headers, stats, and featured projects. A practical guide for developers. **[George Ongoro](https://daily.dev/sources/jcfnztlpnztfifdlcbjrk)** · [@georgeongoro](https://daily.dev/georgeongoro) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of building a GitHub profile README that serves as a developer's landing page. Covers design decisions including animated headers using readme-typing-svg, tech stack visualization with skill-icons.dev, featured project tables, GitHub stats cards, and a daily.dev developer card. Emphasizes clarity over complexity, with principles like keeping content scannable, honest, and functional. Includes specific code examples and tool recommendations for creating auto-updating elements while avoiding common pitfalls like overloading with widgets. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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