Prompt:
GitHub is an incredibly useful tool for project management and collaboration. It also has several useful features for professional promotion: you can host your own site on github using GitHub pages, describe yourself using a GitHub developer profile, and even use resume.github.io to generate a resume summary of your activity on GitHub (you must opt-in by starring the project page).
posit and the associated package infrastructure provide multiple ways to generate websites using Quarto (or Rmarkdown). You can complete this assignment using one of the two options detailed in Prompt 8
Describe your experience creating your website below. Don’t forget to link to your website! Push this blog post to your blog-8 repo. Make sure that all of the checks are passing.
How did building your own website go?
I decided to build a Quarto Blog to document the work that I want to do for the projects related to historical maps. Quarto’s layout is pretty straight-forward so I didn’t run into any problems with creating the posts that are on the webpage. I did try to change the css styling of the page a little bit with a new navbar but definitely struggled with trying to find the right place to put in the new html styles. In publishing to the Github Pages, I first decided I would try to work with the quarto publish command but didn’t really understand what the purpose of change the source branch to the gh-pages was so I opted for the docs method instead which was quite easy. It is still a little scary that you could accidentally push the rest of your code with your docs to the repository by accident but I suppose there are .gitignore files for a reason.