Distill

1. Things to Know Before You Get Started

In this tutorial, we'll go through all of the necessary things I think you should know before building a website in distill. For example, making sure that you have R, RStudio, and Git installed and that you have a GitHub account.

2. Building Your Website

In this tutorial, we will build our website in RStudio and get everything set up with GitHub. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a live, working website that will be hosted on GitHub.

3. Editing your homepage

In this tutorial, we will modify the content on our homepage. We will insert a logo, modify the interactive buttons, and update the main text.

4. Creating a Custom Color Theme

In this tutorial, we will create a custom color theme for our website. We will update the website's font, color, text size, and even update the color of the interactive buttons on our homepage.

5. Setting Up Our Navigation Bar and Getting Started Page

In this tutorial, we will modify our navigation bar and then build the Getting Started page. I will also show you how to add some customized css styling, create a table of contents, and embed YouTube videos directly into your website.

6. Creating Lessons/Posts

In this tutorial, we will create a few of the lesson plans from the R-Girls website. Specifically, we will create the "My 1st R Markdown Lesson" and two of the Math lessons.

More articles »

Distill