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 # Simple PHP Website
 
-I put together this project while introducing a friend of mine to PHP. I decided to clean it up a bit and put it on Github so anyone new to PHP can have a taste of a **very simple and minimal** website built with PHP.
+I am introducing this project after being motivated with one of my friend's words about PhP. I decided to clean it up a bit and put it on Github so any ew PhP developer can have a taste of a **very simple and minimal** website built with PhP.
 
 This project is meant for beginners. I've intentionally kept it minimal while introducing some [separation of concerns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns).
 
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 1. Download the project to the desired directory on your computer
 2. Run  `php -S localhost:8080` on your terminal. Navigate to http://localhost:8080 to see the site.
 
-By defaut, the page URLs use query strings (*?page=about*). You need to have Apache installed for pretly URLs (*/about*) to work. To activate pretty urls, update config value of `pretty_uri` to `true`.
+By default, the page URLs use query strings (*?page=about*). You need to have Apache installed for pretly URLs (*/about*) to work. To activate pretty urls, update config value of `pretty_uri` to `true`.
 
 ## Concepts