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Homework

Your mission, high-level, is to personalize the biography section of your new home page:

1. Open your blogdown R project, and use the serve site add-in right away.

2. In this example site, a superuser is created with the username admin and corresponding user profile located at content/authors/admin/_index.md. Open up this _index.md file and update the YAML front matter plus the bio after the front matter (i.e. after the last --- line) to create your profile.¹

3. Find a .jpg file you want to use as a profile photo. For best results, place a square cropped portrait photo named avatar.jpg into your profile folder at content/authors/admin/, overwriting the example image.

4. Attempt to update your site on Netlify (doh! this is a bit of a trick 😉).

5. Sign up for a Netlify account, using your GitHub account (see screenshots below).

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Extra

1. Look at the default landing page for your current “out of the box” example site- scroll through the sections. Which do you like? Which do you want to cut? Make a list!

2. Look at the upper menu navbar- what menu items do you want? What is missing? Make a list!

Review

• Discussed blogdown selling points 💡

• Got to know our Hugo installation 👋

• Used Hugo to build a website in RStudio 💪

• Deployed a website using Netlify 🚀

• Learned that all Hugo themes are GitHub repositories 🤷‍♀

• Learned that when you serve site, R + Hugo = 💫 -> public/ (❌ TOUCH!)

• Alison mused about the false lure of Hugo theme “simplicity” 🧘