specky

Quarto website template for courses

For a demo site and usage, see here.

Usage

• Recommended quarto 1.8.25 or higher
• To download and use a starter template, run in the terminal

❗ Demo files are not downloaded

quarto use template royfrancis/specky

• Install required extensions

quarto add --no-prompt quarto-ext/fontawesome
quarto add --no-prompt royfrancis/quarto-revealjs-header
quarto add --no-prompt royfrancis/quarto-revealjs-pointer
quarto add --no-prompt mcanouil/quarto-collapse-output@1.4.0
quarto add --no-prompt royfrancis/quarto-accordion
quarto add --no-prompt royfrancis/quarto-leaflet
quarto add --no-prompt royfrancis/quarto-team

• Render all html files into docs directory to make sure everything works as expected

quarto render

• See more documentation on the demo site for customization

Showcase

Here are a few examples of this template in action:

• Introduction to Bioinformatics using NGS data
• Single-cell RNA-seq analysis
• Tools for reproducible research
• Advanced data visualization

Acknowledgements

• Built using Quarto
• Uses the fontawesome extension for icons
• Uses the collapse-output extension for code output folding

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2026 • Roy Francis