STAT 385 Course Website for Summer 2017

Within this repository, the source code that is behind the STAT 385 @ UIUC Summer 2017 Course Website can be found.

Generally speaking, the website is made using the following tools:

• The backend of the site is powered by hugo, which enables the static generation of files from markdown documents.
• The service that is hosting the website is netlify.
• To locally preview the website and convert .Rmd files to .md files, the blogdown package is employed which provides an interfaces with rmarkdown.
• The display of LaTeX math is done via MathJax.
• The custom domain name of stat385.thecoatlessprofessor.com instead of generated-name.netlify.com is done using a CNAME DNS configuration.

For more information, please refer to a future post on http://thecoatlessprofessor.com/.

Structure

The folder structure of the website is given as:

• Hugo specific
  • layouts: HTML Layout Structure
  • blogdown: Posts converted to .md from .Rmd
  • docs: Rendered version of site (formerly known as public)
  • themes: Installed hugo themes
• Course Content
  • content: Source of posts and main menu pages.
  • static: Images generated by the RMarkdown post

License