MVC improvements to basics landing page

doc/README.md

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 The following documentation relates to the DevOps **Release** stage:
 
 | Release Topics                                                                                                                      | Description                                                                                                                           |
-|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 | [Auto Deploy](topics/autodevops/index.md#auto-deploy)                                                                               | Configure GitLab for the deployment of your application.                                                                              |
 | [Canary Deployments](user/project/canary_deployments.md) **[PREMIUM]**                                                              | Employ a popular CI strategy where a small portion of the fleet is updated to the new version first.                                  |
 | [Deploy Boards](user/project/deploy_boards.md) **[PREMIUM]**                                                                        | View the current health and status of each CI environment running on Kubernetes, displaying the status of the pods in the deployment. |
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ We have the following documentation to rapidly uplift your GitLab knowledge:
 
 | Topic                                                                                                                  | Description                                                    |
 |:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------|
-| [GitLab Basics](gitlab-basics/README.md)                                                                               | Start working on the command line and with GitLab.             |
+| [GitLab basics guides](gitlab-basics/README.md)                                                                        | Start working on the command line and with GitLab.             |
 | [GitLab Workflow](workflow/README.md) and [overview](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/25/gitlab-workflow-an-overview/) | Enhance your workflow with the best of GitLab Workflow.        |
 | [Get started with GitLab CI/CD](ci/quick_start/README.md)                                                              | Quickly implement GitLab CI/CD.                                |
 | [Auto DevOps](topics/autodevops/index.md)                                                                              | Learn more about GitLab's Auto DevOps.                         |

doc/gitlab-basics/README.md

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-# GitLab basics
-
-Step-by-step guides on the basics of working with Git and GitLab.
-
-- [Command line basics](command-line-commands.md)
-- [Start using Git on the command line](start-using-git.md)
-- [Create and add your SSH Keys](create-your-ssh-keys.md)
-- [Create a project](create-project.md)
-- [Create a group](../user/group/index.md#create-a-new-group)
-- [Create a branch](create-branch.md)
-- [Fork a project](fork-project.md)
-- [Add a file](add-file.md)
-- [Add an image](add-image.md)
-- [Create an issue](../user/project/issues/create_new_issue.md)
-- [Create a merge request](add-merge-request.md)
+# GitLab basics guides
+
+This section provides resources to help you start with GitLab by focusing on basic functionality.
+
+This documentation is split into the following groups:
+
+- [GitLab-specific functionality](#gitlab-basics), for basic GitLab features.
+- [General Git functionality](#git-basics), for working with Git in conjunction with GitLab.
+
+## GitLab basics
+
+The following are guides to basic GitLab functionality:
+
+- [Create and add your SSH Keys](create-your-ssh-keys.md), for enabling Git over SSH.
+- [Create a project](create-project.md), to start using GitLab.
+- [Create a group](../user/group/index.md#create-a-new-group), to combine and administer projects together.
+- [Create a branch](create-branch.md), to make changes to files stored in a project's repository.
+- [Fork a project](fork-project.md), to duplicate projects so they can be worked on in parallel.
+- [Add a file](add-file.md), to add new files to a project's repository.
+- [Add an image](add-image.md), to add new images to a project's repository.
+- [Create an issue](../user/project/issues/create_new_issue.md), to start collaborating within a project.
+- [Create a merge request](add-merge-request.md), to request changes made in a branch be merged into a project's repository.
+
+## Git basics
+
+If you're unfamiliar with the command line, these resources will help:
+
+- [Command line basics](command-line-commands.md), for those unfamiliar with the command line interface.
+- [Start using Git on the command line](start-using-git.md), for some simple Git commands.
+
+More Git resources are available at GitLab's [Git documentation](../topics/git/index.md).