Introduction and Acknowledgements
This website was set up using the minimal-mistakes theme within Jekyll. I found Li Zeng's personal web site and specifically his Jekyll set-up post extremely helpful in conjunction with the Jekyll & minimal-mistakes documentation. Steven Miller's website and walkthrough. While building some familiarity with Jekyll and the ability to generate a website, I also found msyelf consulting this useful Jekyll style guide as a means of (attempting to) keep myself in check with respect to good practices.
I'm very thankful for the walkthroughs and existing resources that other laypeople have taken the time to outline for users like me to build a professional website with minimal experience in HTML, CSS, etc!