Creating a Personal Website (Using Quarto)

Description

Quarto is a new and versatile tool for writing content in markdown and publishing to a multitude of formats. This workshop will operate as a Getting Started guide for using Quarto to create a personal website. Along the way, attendees will learn about other uses of Quarto and using GitHub Actions for continuous deployment.

Prerequisites

This lesson assumes you know:

• have some familiarity making repos and commits
• know how to synchronize repos from your computer to GitHub

Such as via https://uf-repro.github.io/friendly-github-intro/

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• describe the principles of Quarto documents
• create a basic website in Quarto
• describe the workflow for continuous deployment
• deploy a Quarto website using GitHub Actions