New website is live!

Transition to Quarto and new visual identity

Published

May 9, 2026

I lauched a new version of my website!

This is the new home page: Image of the home page featuring rainbow-colored cards to subpages of the website

Quarto

Previously run on Beautiful Jekyll and Rmarkdown, I have now transitioned to Quarto. The website it still published via GitHub Pages, but now the source code is cleaner, with only the QMD files, SCSS stylesheet, and other assets in the repo. The website is now also more mobile-friendly, and allows more features of Quarto.

Visual identity

I got bored of the previous design, and wanted something more whimsical. I also thought it would be good to highlight more of my work, especially my R projects.

Now the landing page features a set of cards directing to different parts of the website. I introduced new pages to share news and updates from my work, and a portfolio of my R projects. These pages will slowly be populated with content. The cards themselves are illustrated with some of my own R-based generative art – all code is available on GitHub.

I shifted the colour scheme to a colorful pastel palette, chose a new font set (Quicksand and Inter), and made use of icons for a bit of extra flair. The header and footer color matches my newly painted walls – gotta keep the visual identity consistent online and offline! (or maybe I just really like the color)

Anyway, so far I’m enjoying the new design, and there is certainly more to come.

Credits

In addition to heavily relying on the Quarto website documentation, the home page card setup was inspired by the websites of Ella Kaye and Danielle Navarro. And since my HTML and CSS skills are not quite aligned with the level of customisation I desire, chunks of the SCSS file and some of the HTML bits in the QMD files are the results of extensive back-and-forth chats with ChatGPT.