Making websites with Quarto

23 March 2026

This week we begin to work on the final project for the course. We will work through creating a static website with Quarto and launching it using GitHub pages.

Reading

• Olivia Wikle and Evan Peter Williamson, “Static Web Methodology as a Sustainable Approach to Digital Humanities Projects,” The Code4Lib Journal, no. 60 (April 2025), https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18372.

Watch

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel & Julia Stewart Lowndes, Hello Quarto: Share, Collaborate, Teach, Reimagine at RStudio conf 2022.

Assignment

• Try your best to get your r-notes project on GitHub following the Local first instructions on The Git and GitHub workflow.
• Practice writing some R code.

Activities

• Git and GitHub check in
• Quarto documents with SNiGB data
• Static websites
• Quarto websites

Resources

Quarto resources

• Elen Le Foll, Quarto for reproducible research workflows and academic publishing
• Branded Websites, Presentations, Dashboards, and PDFs with Quarto posit::conf(2025) workshop
• Quarto documentation: Creating a website
• Quarto documentation: HTML Documents

DH and static websites

• Digital Humanities Quarterly special issue on Minimal Computing.
• Lib-Static.
• Amanda Visconti, “Building a Static Website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages,” The Programming Historian (2016), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0048.

Static webistes

• Brian Rinaldi, Static Site Generators (O’Reilly Media, 2015), https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/static-site-generators/9781492048558/.
• Blake Watson, HTML for People. A step-by-step guide to making a static website manually with HTML and CSS.