Create a Quarto blog
For this course we will create a blog in Quarto and publish it with GitHub pages (in the next part). At the end of every day, I want you to take some time to review the day’s topics and write (and publish) a blog entry for each topic.
This gives you time to review what we’ve done, and practice literate programming, presentation, and git. You can explore Quarto and it’s possibilities, or add bits and pieces to topics you’re already familiar with.
And at the end of the course you will hand in the blog, and the corresponding repository. But you will also have a resource you can go back to, for yourself, or maybe for teaching purposes.
Last, but not least, you can use the blog to showcase skills you have mastered (especially if you add to it during your PhD).
How to start a blog with Quarto
In VScode, open the command palette:
View -> Command PaletteAfter the prompt, >, type:
Quarto: Create ProjectSelect Blog Project, the location on your computer, and fill in the name.
Explore the blog and change things
Render the blog and explore - where are the posts, what can you change?
Write your first blog post: How to make a quarto blog.
Tips and tricks
With listings, you can control which posts will be shown where.
There are a lot of options for you executable code.
You can change the color scheme of the blog.
Lightbox images might be interesting.
Make use of the categories to sort blog posts into groups.
Check other Quarto homepages for cool features!