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+# ngIRCd Homepage
+
+This is the *homepage* of ngIRCd, a free, portable and lightweight Internet
+Relay Chat (IRC) server for small or private networks.
+
+The homepage itself can be found on <https://ngircd.barton.de>.
+
+This source code is available on
+[GitHub](https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd-web).
+
+## Building the Manual Pages
+
+Use `pandoc` like this:
+
+```bash
+pandoc -s -f man -t html -o ngircd.conf.5.html ../ngIRCd.git/man/ngircd.conf.5
+pandoc -s -f man -t html -o man/ngircd.8.html ../ngIRCd.git/man/ngircd.8
+```
+
+Don't forget to add the updates HTML files to the Git repository!