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 Getting Started
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-If you want to keep it simple, head over to http://underscores.me and generate your `_s` based theme from there. You just input the name of the theme you want to create and click the "Generate" button and you get your ready-to-awesomize starter theme.
+If you want to keep it simple, head over to http://underscores.me and generate your `_s` based theme from there. You just input the name of the theme you want to create, click the "Generate" button, and you get your ready-to-awesomize starter theme.
 
-If you wanna do set things up manually, download `_s` from github. The first thing you want to do is copy the `_s` directory and change the name to something else. Like, say, `megatherium`. Then you'll need to do a three-step find and replace on the name in all the templates.
+If you want to set things up manually, download `_s` from github. The first thing you want to do is copy the `_s` directory and change the name to something else — Like, say, `megatherium` — then you'll need to do a three-step find and replace on the name in all the templates.
 
 1. Search for `_s` inside single quotations to capture the text domain.
 2. Search for `_s_` for to capture all the function names