Source for the Valenzano Lab website at the Leibniz Institute on Aging.

The site is built with Quarto and deployed to GitHub Pages via the gh-pages branch.

1. Get a GitHub account.
2. Familiarize yourself with git and Quarto.
3. Ask Dario to add you as a collaborator on this repo.

All commands run from inside the _site/ directory (the Quarto project root).

Edit source files, then commit and push:

git add -u                        # stage modifications to tracked files
git add <any-new-files>           # stage genuinely new files explicitly
git commit -m "description"
git push origin quarto-redesign

Deploy the live site:

quarto publish gh-pages

This renders the site and pushes the output to gh-pages in one step. No need to run quarto render separately.

Preview locally before publishing:

quarto preview

Create a new folder under posts/ and add an index.qmd:

posts/
└── YYYY-MM-DD-short-title/
    └── index.qmd

Front matter template:

---
title: "Post title"
date: YYYY-MM-DD
author: "Dario Valenzano"
categories: [field-work, killifish]
description: "One sentence summary shown in the listing."
---

• Use git add -u rather than git add . to avoid committing .DS_Store and other junk.
• Stay on quarto-redesign for all development. Do not push to main until ready to formally release.
• Never edit the gh-pages branch directly.