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?
Here’s my website: https://valeriehan6.github.io/.
I chose to use Quarto. The website building itself wasn’t too bad since it felt pretty similar to RMarkdown and the changes I made to the layout were straightforward. However, I got frustrated when I was trying to figure out how to publish the website from Github. The rendering to docs method did not work for me. I tried re-organizing my file structure to get it to work and added .nojekyll files in each layer just to see if it wasn’t checking it in the git root directory, but it still only displayed the default page generated from the README.md file. I then tried the other method of publishing. Luckily, that method worked after only minor debugging.