Quarto Workshop

Part 2 – publish your quarto website

Step 1 – Set you a GitHub account

  1. Go to https://github.com/
  2. Click on Sign up
  3. Follow the prompts to create your personal account

Step 2 – Create your GitHub pages

Head over to GitHub and create a new public repository named username.github.io, where username is your username (or organization name) on GitHub. If the first part of the repository doesn’t exactly match your username, it won’t work, so make sure to get it right.

Or follow the instructions at https://pages.github.com/

Go to your quarto project folder, and copy everything that is in the _site folder over to your new GitHub repository

Wait for the internet to learn how to route to your web address (it takes a couple of minutes) – you can then just access your website by going to username.github.io with a web-browser