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Moving off a website builder, and what the new setup can do.

Author

Derya Ipek Eroglu

Published

August 14, 2026

This is a working example post. Delete it once you have written a real one — or keep it around as a reference for the syntax below.

Writing a new post

Create a folder under posts/ and put an index.qmd inside it:

posts/
  my-new-post/
    index.qmd

Give it a title, description, and date in the front matter, and it appears on the Writing page automatically, newest first. Set draft: true to keep a post out of the published site while you work on it.

Embedding a PDF

Two options. A plain link is usually better — it works on phones, where inline PDF viewers tend to fail:

[Download the slides (PDF)](../../assets/papers/example.pdf)

For an inline viewer on desktop:

<iframe src="../../assets/papers/example.pdf"
        width="100%" height="600" style="border:1px solid #E4E0D8;">
</iframe>

Embedding a video

Paste the embed code from YouTube’s Share menu:

<iframe width="100%" height="400"
        src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID"
        title="Video title"
        frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>
</iframe>

The video stays on YouTube, so it costs you no storage and no bandwidth.

Images

Put the file in the post’s own folder and reference it by name:

![Caption goes here](diagram.png)

Keeping images beside the post rather than in a shared folder means moving or deleting a post takes its images with it.

Code

Fenced blocks get syntax highlighting:

def hello(name):
    return f"Merhaba, {name}"