Tutorials

Following you will find tutorials. Most of them have short step to step instructions. I am trying to illustrate all steps with screenshots. Sometimes the same subject is also presented as slide. There is an extra section with files they are just full-screen slides and nothing else. If there is a slide show availabe, then here in this section you will find them integrated in the article.


  • How to Register with a Hosting Service to Buy Space for your Server
  • What do you have to watch out for your registration with a hosting web service? I take, as an example, the German hoster Uberspace and show the process step-by-step.

  • How to produce bibliographic metadata for your web page?
  • The tutorial explains how to use Zotero to produce and embed bibliographic metadata into your web page. An annotated screenshot illustrates each of the 14 simple steps.

  • How to install Disqus on Hugo?
  • This post explains how to integrate Disqus as a discussion forum for your website. It is not a thing you can do directly applying the Hugo documentation because there is a faulty template to change.

  • Blogdown tutorial (Part 4)
  • In this fourth part of the tutorial I will explain a method how to bring your website online. My preferred method is to transfer the files via GitHub to Netlify, a service specialized for quickly rolling out static websites.

  • Blogdown tutorial (Part 3)
  • In part 3 I will show the necessary steps to get a live preview of the website.

  • Blogdown tutorial (Part 2)
  • In part 2 we will create a GitHub repository and link it to our local repository, which we have created in part 1 of this tutorial.

  • Blogdown tutorial (Part 1)
  • Part 1 of this tutorial explains how to install a Hugo theme on top of R, RStudio and blogdown. For this demonstration I will use the new (preview) version of RStudio as it facilitates the installation of Hugo and a theme.

Page created: 2017-04-24 | Last modified: 2019-06-20
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