Build a Free Professional Portfolio Website with Quarto | CCIDM at Cal Poly Pomon

Part of the Spring 2025 CCIDM Virtual Workshop Series, this hands-on session focuses on planning and launching a professional portfolio website with Quarto—no prior coding required. You’ll learn how to organize résumé/CV content, projects, and publications into a cohesive site, apply custom styling with SCSS and themes, and publish your work using GitHub Pages for a credible, public-facing presence. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to assemble a complete Quarto site from existing materials, integrate analyses/reports/dashboards created in Quarto, tailor layout and appearance with SCSS and custom themes, deploy the site via GitHub Pages, and generate an R résumé using the vitae package—capabilities that help students and job seekers present a polished personal brand quickly. Learning Outcomes: 1. Build a professional Quarto website to showcase your portfolio, skills, and personal brand online. 2. Integrate existing Quarto projects into your website for cohesive presentation of analyses, reports, interactive visualizations, and dashboards. 3. Customize your website layout and appearance with SCSS and custom themes to enhance visual appeal 4. Deploy your website online using GitHub Pages for easy accessibility and professional visibility. 5. Create a resume in R using the Vitae package Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Welcome & workshop overview (CCIDM @ Cal Poly Pomona) 00:01:58 — Host intro: Dr. Jae Jung (CCIDM Director) 00:02:26 — Speaker intro: Jarrod Griffin (MS Digital Marketing) 00:05:12 — Agenda 00:06:50 — Expected Learning Outcomes 00:09:28 — Demonstrate Projects 00:12:25 — Downloading/Cloning Repo – Farm Store 00:17:21 — Portfolio Development Deployment 00:20:25 — Set homepage & site structure 00:23:11 — Portfolio Development & Deployment Walkthrough 00:39:22 — Publishing via Terminal 00:41:32 — Building a Portfolio Website on GitHub Pages – Jarrod 00:43:18 — Setting up GitHub 00:45:45 — Setting up GitHub Desktop 00:50:31 — Site Structure 00:51:33 — Resume Building with vitae 00:58:23 — Integrating Existing Quarto Projects 01:01:02 — Quarto Website Document Listings 01:04:29 — Configuring HTML for GitHub 01:08:28 — Configuring GitHub Pages 01:11:14 — Theming Website with SCSS Resources: • Workshop materials on GitHub: https://github.com/CCIDM/effective-qu... • Quarto documentation: https://quarto.org • R and RStudio downloads: https://posit.co About the Center for Customer Insights and Digital Marketing (CCIDM): The Center for Customer Insights and Digital Marketing (CCIDM) operates within the College of Business Administration at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. We offer workshops, research, and student programs focused on data-driven marketing and analytics. Connect with us: • LinkedIn –   / cpp-ccidm   • Twitter –   / cpp_ccidm   • Website – https://www.cpp.edu/cba/customer-insi... This video was prepared by the Center for Customer Insights and Digital Marketing at the College of Business Administration at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Intro and outro animation by Patrick Ogaz. Music courtesy of Bensound.com.