diff --git a/R/statebins.R b/R/statebins.R
index de10a48..dccc4c4 100644
--- a/R/statebins.R
+++ b/R/statebins.R
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ statebins <- function(state_data, state_col="state", value_col="value",
   gg <- ggplot(st.dat, aes(x=col, y=row, label=abbrev))
   gg <- gg + geom_tile(aes(fill=fill_color))
   gg <- gg + geom_tile(color=state_border_col, aes(fill=fill_color), size=3, show_guide=FALSE)
-  gg <- gg + geom_text(color=text_color)
+  gg <- gg + geom_text(color=text_color, size=2)
   gg <- gg + scale_y_reverse()
   gg <- gg + scale_fill_brewer(palette=brewer_pal, name=legend_title)
   gg <- gg + coord_equal()
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ statebins_continuous <- function(state_data, state_col="state", value_col="value
   gg <- gg + geom_tile(aes_string(fill=value_col))
   gg <- gg + geom_tile(color=state_border_col,
                        aes_string(fill=value_col), size=3, show_guide=FALSE)
-  gg <- gg + geom_text(color=text_color)
+  gg <- gg + geom_text(color=text_color, size=2)
   gg <- gg + scale_y_reverse()
   gg <- gg + continuous_scale("fill", "distiller",
                    gradient_n_pal(brewer_pal(type, brewer_pal)(6), NULL, "Lab"), na.value = "grey50", name=legend_title)
diff --git a/_README.md b/_README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..719ae03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+statesquares is ...
+
+The following functions are implemented:
+
+-   `statebins` -
+
+### News
+
+-   Version `1.0.0` released
+
+### Installation
+
+``` {.r}
+devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/statebins")
+```
+
+### Usage
+
+``` {.r}
+library(statebins)
+```
+
+    ## Loading required package: ggplot2
+    ## Loading required package: grid
+    ## Loading required package: scales
+    ## Loading required package: gridExtra
+
+``` {.r}
+# current verison
+packageVersion("statebins")
+```
+
+    ## [1] '1.0'
+
+``` {.r}
+dat <- read.csv("http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/states-most-threatened-by-trade/states.csv?cache=1", stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
+
+gg <- statebins(dat, "state", "avgshare94_00", breaks=4, 
+                labels=c("0-1", "1-2", "2-3", "3-4"),
+                legend_title="State Groups",
+                brewer_pal="Blues", text_color="black", 
+                plot_title="1994-2000", title_position="bottom")
+
+gg
+```
+
+![plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-3](./_README_files/figure-markdown_github/unnamed-chunk-31.png)
+
+``` {.r}
+gg2 <- statebins_continuous(dat, "state", "avgshare01_07",
+                legend_title="States", legend_position="none",
+                brewer_pal="OrRd", text_color="black", 
+                plot_title="1994-2000", title_position="bottom")
+
+gg2
+```
+
+![plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-3](./_README_files/figure-markdown_github/unnamed-chunk-32.png)
+
+### Test Results
+
+``` {.r}
+library(statebins)
+library(testthat)
+
+date()
+```
+
+    ## [1] "Mon Aug 25 22:22:55 2014"
+
+``` {.r}
+test_dir("tests/")
+```
+
+    ## basic functionality :
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