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We made a website

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training
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Author

Joe Marsh Rossney

Published

August 30, 2025

Modified

September 22, 2025

Summary

This is the first post for this page. I describe some things.

Hello world

We made a website.

What you should expect to find:

  • Updates, news etc.
  • Projects
  • Tutorials

Why we felt we needed a website

  • Growing portfolio of projects and other activities
  • But it’s hard to get visibility in UKCEH - big organisation and everyone is busy!
  • Need an easy way to share updates, content
  • Need a place to collect our training materials
  • Need a centralised space so we can just send people a link.
  • Needs to be accessible outside of our org - external collaborators.

Why Quarto?

  • Plain text (markdown) based.
  • Used by many in UKCEH
  • Existing UKCEH brand, implemented by Joe.
  • Can render executable notebooks in Python/R/Julia - use the same tool for tutorials.
Tip

For instructions on how to apply the UKCEH branding to your own Quarto documents, see HERE.

Why not use the Hub?

  • Prefer a solution based on plain text files that can be version-controlled.
  • Prefer open-source and open-access - sometimes not clear if a hub page is visible internally or externally.
  • Hub doesn’t have the best search functionality, and dates are often missing.
  • We prefer to be in control - we are control freaks.

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