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Quarto Website Template

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Welcome

This is a Quarto website template that you can use to create your own website.

The notes are available in multiple formats:

  • HTML Website: Navigate using the navbar for easy access to all pages
  • RevealJS Slides: Each chapter can generate a presentation format with -slides.html suffix
  • PDF Handouts: Each chapter can generate a PDF handout with -handout.pdf suffix
  • DOCX Documents: Each chapter can generate a Microsoft Word document with .docx extension

0.1 About this website

This website is built with Quarto, an open-source scientific and technical publishing system. You can use Quarto to create books, websites, blogs, presentations, and more from markdown files.

0.2 Getting Started

To use this template:

  1. Update the configuration: Edit _quarto-website.yml to change the website title, site URL, and navigation menu.

  2. Add your content: Create new .qmd files for each page and add them to the navigation menu in _quarto-website.yml.

  3. Customize the style: Modify styles.css to change the appearance of your website.

  4. Add references: Update references.bib with your citations.

0.3 Building the website

To render the website locally:

quarto render

To preview the website with live reload:

quarto preview

The rendered output will be in the _site/ directory, which can be published to GitHub Pages.

0.4 Publishing to GitHub Pages

This template includes a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically builds and publishes your website to GitHub Pages when you push to the main branch.

To enable GitHub Pages:

  1. Go to your repository settings
  2. Navigate to “Pages” in the left sidebar
  3. Under “Build and deployment”, set Source to “GitHub Actions”
  4. Push your changes to the main branch
  5. The workflow will automatically build and deploy your website

Your website will be available at https://YOUR-USERNAME.github.io/YOUR-REPO/

0.5 License

Add your license information here.

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