diff --git a/css/screen.css b/css/screen.css
index 51c1cd28d..7faa61c32 100644
--- a/css/screen.css
+++ b/css/screen.css
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ code {
   font-family: Monaco, Consolas, monospace;
 }
 
-p code {
+p code, li code {
   color: #96F;
   color: #008200;
   color: #C30;
diff --git a/docs/getting_started.md b/docs/getting_started.md
index ceb5e04d6..234eb8cf7 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started.md
+++ b/docs/getting_started.md
@@ -2,7 +2,15 @@
 layout: default
 title: Getting Started
 ---
-## Installation
+This getting started guide will walk you through the basics of setting up and
+building your first virtual machine with vagrant. However, it will not introduce
+the provisioning or packaging system built-in to vagrant. This guide will be
+most helpful to those who have never used vagrant before and are just wanted to
+get a brief feel for it before diving in head first into the deep end.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+### Installation
 
 Vagrant is packaged as a [RubyGem](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems). Note that
 vagrant is _not limited to just ruby-based projects_. On the contrary, vagrant does not
@@ -13,7 +21,7 @@ in Ruby and can be installed simply:
 $ gem install vagrant
 {% endhighlight %}
 
-## Initialize Your Project
+### Initialize Your Project
 
 Once you've got vagrant installed, you'll want to initialize it for your project or
 projects. To do this, go to the root directory of your project, and do the following:
@@ -23,4 +31,14 @@ $ vagrant init
 {% endhighlight %}
 
 This will create an initial `Vagrantfile` in that directory, which is used not only
-to mark the root directory of your project but also to control every aspect of vagrant.
\ No newline at end of file
+to mark the root directory of your project but also to control every aspect of vagrant.
+
+### Build Your First Virtualized Environment!
+
+Now that vagrant is setup for your project, you can simply build your first virtual
+machine:
+
+{% highlight bash %}
+$ vagrant up
+{% endhighlight %}
+