diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cba43cc4e310b6995d8972ba4fa6bc202342a2a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+.Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.RData
+.Ruserdata
+
+/.quarto/
diff --git a/_quarto.yml b/_quarto.yml
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2b1253d147d66ce235b40be9fe8be3ded528586
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_quarto.yml
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+project:
+  type: website
+
+website:
+  title: "quarto_website_template"
+  navbar:
+    left:
+      - href: index.qmd
+        text: Home
+      - about.qmd
+
+format:
+  html:
+    theme: cosmo
+    css: styles.css
+    toc: true
+
+
+
diff --git a/about.qmd b/about.qmd
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0c6f4a2e73ca89172e539cf14a3009447cf51380
--- /dev/null
+++ b/about.qmd
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+---
+title: "About"
+---
+
+About this site
+
+```{r}
+1 + 1
+```
diff --git a/index.qmd b/index.qmd
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92610b629f584ff14102eebefe6e607a601a560c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/index.qmd
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+---
+title: "Quarto Website Template"
+---
+
+This is a Quarto website.
+
+To learn more about Quarto websites visit <https://quarto.org/docs/websites>.
+
+```{r}
+1 + 1
+```
diff --git a/quarto_website_template.Rproj b/quarto_website_template.Rproj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3715d52d2dcf3d8d8b4e5796956246ae2729f2c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quarto_website_template.Rproj
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Version: 1.0
+
+RestoreWorkspace: Default
+SaveWorkspace: Default
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 4
+Encoding: UTF-8
+
+RnwWeave: knitr
+LaTeX: pdfLaTeX
diff --git a/styles.css b/styles.css
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ddf50c7b4236e4b67c3e9fc369f6a7a562cd27d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/styles.css
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/* css styles */