Update the NOAA quarto website template

[k-doering-NOAA]

The NOAA quarto simple website template could use a refresh. Tasks could include:

• Check that instructions are easy to follow and make clarity edits
• Create a workflow in ghactions4r that can be referenced here (will make updating the template simpler)
• See if there is a way that the quarto yaml can be updated so that it doesn't hardcode in the website URL (this messed me up when I used the template)

If anyone is interested in these, it would be great to collaborate in future coworking sessions!

[e-perl-NOAA]

@k-doering-NOAA I'm happy to help and co-work on this with you!

[k-doering-NOAA]

@e-perl-NOAA that sounds great!!!

[k-doering-NOAA]

Adding that this template originally was based off of the openscapes one: https://github.com/Openscapes/quarto-website-tutorial

[k-doering-NOAA]

Thanks to @jules32 and @jonpeake who identified making this a quarto template might be helpful: https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/starter-templates.html

[jules32]

More context for the link above; we discussed @k-doering-NOAA 's 3rd bullet:

See if there is a way that the quarto yaml can be updated so that it doesn't hardcode in the website URL (this messed me up when I used the template)

This issue might be because this is a Github template, not a Quarto template. Potentially a Quarto template already has solved this, like the way Eli made the quarto_titlepages template: https://github.com/nmfs-opensci/

[e-perl-NOAA]

Another idea might be to create a GitHub action that uses the github api to get the repo name and the github.io site name if one exists and to replace it there.

Additional idea to make it so the website template could be a subfolder of a repo that has other content.

[k-doering-NOAA]

relevant to our discussion of branding: https://posit.co/blog/unified-branding-across-posit-tools-with-brand-yml/

Looks like we could do a Yaml file rather than a css!