First post

This is my personal website. I will try to create posts focusing on neuroimaging research. I chose to use the R package blogdown to create it because of these reasons:

• R
• familarity
• community
• visualizations
• learn more R

Here are online resources I referenced to create this website:

• blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown by Yihui Xie, Amber Thomas, and Alison Presmanes Hill
• Up & Running with blogdown by Alison Presmanes Hill
• Fun blogdown in R to design a personal website by Annie Lyu
• hugo-academic docs
• google

Here are some useful files paths I encountered:

• data/themes/ is the directory for custom themes
• layouts/partials/ is the directory for custom partial templates. This is how I changed the site footer. Default partials are in this directory: themes/hugo-academic/layouts/partials/

While creating the website, I learned there is a difference between index.md and _index.md files. index.md indicates a leaf bundle and _index.md a branch bundle. This blog post gives more information about the differences between leaf and branch bundles.

In the future, I intend to finish reading the blogdown book and maybe look into learning some CSS. I also noticed some blogs with sun/moon button for changing day/night themes (example). I will try to put this in my website and/or alter the theme.