This week, you will begin working on your academic portfolio site. The deliverable for the week is a URL (on Netlify, or wherever) for a simple personal site with the following criteria:

  1. A completed “About” page, containing a short professional bio following the methods & advice given on the course site for today
  2. A photo (not necessarily of you)
  3. At least one stylistic aspect changed from the original template (font, color, etc.)
  4. A sub-page containing one of the visualizations that you have created for an assignment/lab in this class, with an associated description.
  5. All boilerplate (example) content that came with the starter template should be removed or updated. I am talking about things like, for example:
    1. The title of the site itself
    2. The randomly-titled “about” page- this should be renamed, etc.

What to Turn In

On Sakai, give me the URL of your published Netlify site.

Resources

  • Netlify is a free service that is a great choice for hosting a simple personal webpage
    • Quarto can automatically publish your project to Netlify.
    • I have verified that the quarto publish netlify workflow described in the Quarto guide will work on Posit.cloud, assuming that you have already made a Netlify account.
    • Make sure you run quarto commands from the terminal tab in Posit.cloud, not the R console tab.
  • The “Website Theme of the “Creating a Website” section of the Quarto guide has details about available themes.

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