diff --git a/_includes/header.html b/_includes/header.html
index 7b93d8110..16e957024 100644
--- a/_includes/header.html
+++ b/_includes/header.html
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <div id="navigation">
       <ul id="nav">
         <li><a href="/">home</a></li>
-        <li><a href="/docs/getting_started.html">get started</a></li>
+        <li><a href="/docs/getting-started/index.html">get started</a></li>
         <li><a href="/docs/user-guide/index.html">user guide</a></li>
         <li><a href="/contribute.html">contribute</a></li>
         <li><a href="http://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant">code</a></li>
diff --git a/_layouts/getting_started.html b/_layouts/getting_started.html
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9c4193cd0
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+++ b/_layouts/getting_started.html
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+{% include header.html %}
+    <div class="grid_3 alpha sidebar">
+      <ol>
+        <li><a href="/docs/user-guide/index.html">Introduction to Vagrant</a></li>
+      </ol>
+    </div>
+    <div class="grid_9 omega guide">
+      {{ content }}
+    </div>
+{% include footer.html %}
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diff --git a/docs/getting-started/index.md b/docs/getting-started/index.md
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+---
+layout: getting_started
+title: Getting Started
+---
+# Getting Started with Vagrant
+
+Web developers use virtual environments every day with their web applications. From EC2 and Rackspace Cloud to specialized
+solutions such as EngineYard and Heroku, virtualization is the tool of choice for easy deployment and infrastructure management.
+Vagrant aims to take those very same principals and put them to work in the heart of the application lifecycle.
+By providing easy to configure, lightweight, reproducible, and portable virtual machines targeted at
+development environments, Vagrant helps maximize your productivity and flexibility.
+
+## Install Vagrant
+
+Vagrant is packaged as a [RubyGem](http://rubygems.org/). Since Vagrant is written
+in Ruby and RubyGems is a standard part of most Ruby installations, RubyGems is the
+quickest and easiest way to distribute Vagrant to the masses, and it can be installed
+just as easily:
+
+{% highlight bash %}
+$ sudo gem install vagrant
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+## Your First Vagrant Virtual Environment
+
+{% highlight bash %}
+$ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/base.box
+$ vagrant init
+$ vagrant up
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+While the rest of the getting started guide will focus on explaining how to
+build a fully functional virtual machine to serve rails applications, you
+should get used to the above snippet of code. After the initial setup of
+any Vagrant environment, the above is all any developer will need to create
+their development environment!
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