Step 7: Bask in your glory!

You did it! Or maybe you didn’t. Either way let us know how it turned out by filling us in on Slack.

When you’re ready for another session, fire up another binder pod and try making a few other helpful changes to your website. Don’t forget to rebuild and redeploy to publish them. As you iterate you may want to open the _build+deploy.R script which will let you execute the workflow more conveniently from a single window.

• Open _output.yml from within RStudio and change MYGITHUBUSER in the edit: field. This will let authorized collaborators (like your instructor!) easily make copy edits to your source from GitHub.com using the pencil icon at the top of the web page.
• Also from _output.yml make other edits to your sidebar. You can remove, for instance, the LinkedIn line or any of the others. Look around your site and replace “Oski Bear” and other boilerplate with your own info.
• Edit index.Rmd with your info. Write your own welcome message, fill out abstracts, record and link your own welcome video, or delete anything you don’t want.
• If it exists, delete 03.Rmd to prevent it from being built.
• bookdown has lots more configuration options. Give the documentation a whirl. It’s not the sexiest website in the world, but it plays great with R and is a serviceable, free solution for design work.
• Of course any website you want to build can be hosted from github.io.

Figure 45: Kubernetes FTW!