Website revamp

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Website revamp

Website received a revamp!

I was using the same website format for more than 5 years now, and I had grown to appreciate its virtues:

  1. Standard charcoal background with grey writing, for minimal eye strain
  2. Basic, inter-linked HTML files that never broke, and could be edited with any basic code editor
  3. Exclusive focus on information, with 0 distractions (no animations, no dropdown menus)
  4. Blazing-fast loading times
  5. Displayed in the same way on every device

Reasons to change

Over the past few years, though, I’ve been involved in a wider range of projects than before. These projects produced a larger set of outputs: from Shiny dashboards for our Covid-19 project in Kampala, and graphics for our paper on political inequality, to code files, policy briefs, pre-analysis plans, and even sampling protocols based on GIS data.

The need to display some of these outputs in a more user-friendly format required moving past the simple format I used before. And so, a few months ago, I embarked on a revamp of the website. What you see now is the product of that overhaul.

The Jekyll way

I may write in the future a longer blog post detailing the ins and outs of the whole process. For now, the key details are that I relied on a commonly-used static site generator called Jekyll. This takes a set of Markdown files with content, and weaves them together based on a template (I use Hydejack here) to produce a full-fledged website, complete with menus, blog posts, icons etc.

Map

I don’t want to bore you with too much information. Either way, it’s more fun to poke around this website yourself and discover what the various sections contain.

Suffice to say right now that you can find here:

  • my vitae, in both academic and business format
  • some of the stats courses I’ve taught in the past
  • the research and data projects I’ve been involved in so far (one I’m particularly proud of is the Kampala City Charter one)

Though it’s not here yet, the site will also soon contain a dedicated section for a few of the data visualization projects I am currently working on. That’s a promise! 😃

I hope you find the information useful, and that you keep checking this space for regular updates!