Creating your personal website using Quarto

An example Quarto website that we’ll practice building together.

Abstract

A personal website is a great way to showcase your data science skills, highlight projects, and share what you’re passionate about. In this workshop, we’ll learn to build a personal website using Quarto, an accessible and flexible publishing framework, to help you get started. Together, we’ll:

Build the core components of a Quarto website
Add a blog to share your work and projects
Use Sass to customize colors and fonts
Walk through deploying your website ~for free~ using GitHub Pages

Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a Quarto refresher, this workshop will provide you with the tools you need to share your work with an online audience.

Audience

This workshop was developed for the May 2026 RLadies+ Santa Barbara Meetup, and was adapted from content originally developed for the Master of Environmental Data Science (MEDS) program at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{shanny-csik2026,
  author = {Shanny-Csik, Samantha},
  title = {Creating Your Personal Website Using {Quarto}},
  date = {2026-05-13},
  url = {https://samanthacsik.github.io/talks_workshops/2026-05-13-rladies-quarto-sites/},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Shanny-Csik, Samantha. 2026. “Creating Your Personal Website Using Quarto.” May 13. https://samanthacsik.github.io/talks_workshops/2026-05-13-rladies-quarto-sites/.