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Description

ALA presents a 4-Part Webinar Series: Build Your Person Website With Quarto

Are you interested in sharing your work, such as scholarship, creative work, and other projects, and increasing your online visibility? Creating a personal website allows you to highlight yourself and your work, develop an online presence that connects people to you and your work, and share your thoughts in a blog or other pages. Having a personal website is a great way for consultants or speakers to market their services and develop a portfolio of past work; for researchers and scholars to share their publications, including archiving for green open access; for public intellectuals to write blog posts and direct readers to their other writings; and for creatives to highlight their work in various formats and media. This four-part webinar series will provide a basic foundation to get a personal website started and develop the skills to continue building and maintaining your site. We'll rely on Quarto and GitHub Pages: Quarto makes publishing websites simple while providing a lot of customizability for users interested in going deeper, and GitHub Pages allows users to publish their websites for free.

Part 3: Highlighting Your Work and Creating a Blog

This webinar will introduce what Quarto refers to as Listing Pages, which allow you to pull content from metadata in other pages. Listing Pages are useful for organizing pages and content in a blog, listings of research, scholarship, creative works, and other publications, and projects or services. We'll walk through the process of creating listing pages to highlight projects or services in particular, including writing metadata and looking at examples of reusable code for styling the pages, and we'll apply these skills to create a blog with placeholder blog posts.

Accessibility Information

If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.