diff --git a/_freeze/index/execute-results/html.json b/_freeze/index/execute-results/html.json
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index 0000000..9bbbc63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_freeze/index/execute-results/html.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "hash": "2c3cc6a744947daa31d2556b03e05fdf",
+  "result": {
+    "markdown": "---\ntitle: \"rdiscovery\"\nsubtitle: A blog by Layal Christine Lettry\nlisting:\n  contents: posts\n  feed: true\n  sort: \"date desc\"\n  type: default\n  categories: true\n  sort-ui: false\n  filter-ui: false\npage-layout: full\ntitle-block-banner: true\nimage: profile_cat.jpg\n---\n\n::: {.cell}\n\n:::\n\n\n<!-- Mastodon verification -->\n<a rel=\"me\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@layal\">Hidden link used to verify my account on fosstodon.org</a> \n<a rel=\"me\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"https://linkedin.com/in/layal-christine-lettry-529b4471/\">Hidden link used to verify my account on LinkedIn</a>\n<a rel=\"me\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"https://twitter.com/LettryL\">Hidden link used to verify my account on Twitter</a> \n<a rel=\"me\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"https://github.com/Layalchristine24\">Hidden link used to verify my account on GitHub</a> \n",
+    "supporting": [
+      "index_files"
+    ],
+    "filters": [
+      "rmarkdown/pagebreak.lua"
+    ],
+    "includes": {},
+    "engineDependencies": {},
+    "preserve": {},
+    "postProcess": true
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_quarto.yml b/_quarto.yml
index 083a9a0..4bdd5bb 100644
--- a/_quarto.yml
+++ b/_quarto.yml
@@ -3,18 +3,37 @@ project:
 
 website:
   title: "rdiscovery"
+  description: "Explore R with Layal Christine Lettry"
   navbar:
+    title: false
+    background: "#eee"
+    left:
+      - href: index.qmd
+        text: Home
+      - href: index.xml
+        text: RSS
     right:
       - about.qmd
       - icon: github
-        href: https://github.com/Layalchristine24/rdiscovery
-      - icon: twitter
-        href: https://twitter.com/LettryL
-      - icon: linkedin
-        href: https://linkedin.com/in/layal-christine-lettry-529b4471/
-      - icon: mastodon
-        href: https://fosstodon.org/@layal
-  site-url: "https://rdiscovery.netlify.app"
+        href: https://github.com/Layalchristine24
+      - text: Social
+        menu:
+        - icon: twitter
+          href: https://twitter.com/LettryL
+        - icon: linkedin
+          href: https://linkedin.com/in/layal-christine-lettry-529b4471/
+        - icon: mastodon
+          href: https://fosstodon.org/@layal
+      - text: Sites
+        menu:
+        - href: http://layalchristinelettry.rbind.io/
+          text: Homepage
+        - href: https://rdiscovery.netlify.app
+          text: rdiscovery blog
+  site-url: https://rdiscovery.netlify.app
+  repo-url: https://github.com/Layalchristine24/rdiscovery
+  open-graph: true
+  search: false
   
 format:
   html:
diff --git a/index.qmd b/index.qmd
index 2e9e845..32029bd 100644
--- a/index.qmd
+++ b/index.qmd
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: "rdiscovery"
+subtitle: A blog by Layal Christine Lettry
 listing:
   contents: posts
   feed: true
@@ -10,4 +11,62 @@ listing:
   filter-ui: false
 page-layout: full
 title-block-banner: true
+image: profile_cat.jpg
 ---
+
+```{r write-redirects}
+#| echo: false
+# list names of post folders
+posts <- list.dirs(
+  path = here::here("posts"),
+  full.names = FALSE,
+  recursive = FALSE
+)
+
+# extract the slugs
+slugs <- gsub("^.*_", "", posts)
+
+# lines to insert to a netlify _redirect file
+post_redirects <- paste0("/", slugs, " ", "/posts/", posts)
+
+# function to extract post categories from index.qmd files
+get_post_categories <- function(post) {
+  file <- here::here("posts", post) |> fs::path("index.qmd")
+  if(!fs::file_exists(file)) {
+    return(character(0))
+  }
+  file |>
+    readLines() |> 
+    stringr::str_subset("^categories:") |>
+    stringr::str_extract("\\[.*\\]") |> 
+    stringr::str_remove_all("[\\[\\]]") |>
+    stringr::str_split(", ") |> 
+    unlist()
+}
+
+# extract the categories
+categories <- purrr::map(posts, get_post_categories) |> 
+  unlist() |> 
+  unique()
+
+# extract categories in nice form
+keys <- categories |> 
+  stringr::str_to_lower() |>
+  stringr::str_replace_all(" ", "-")
+
+# extract categories in ugly form
+values <- categories |>
+  stringr::str_replace_all(" ", "%20")
+
+# category redirects
+category_redirects <- paste0("/category/", keys, " ", "/#category=", values)
+
+# write the _redirect file
+writeLines(c(post_redirects, category_redirects), here::here("_site", "_redirects"))
+```
+
+<!-- Mastodon verification -->
+<a rel="me" style="display:none" href="https://fosstodon.org/@layal">Hidden link used to verify my account on fosstodon.org</a> 
+<a rel="me" style="display:none" href="https://linkedin.com/in/layal-christine-lettry-529b4471/">Hidden link used to verify my account on LinkedIn</a>
+<a rel="me" style="display:none" href="https://twitter.com/LettryL">Hidden link used to verify my account on Twitter</a> 
+<a rel="me" style="display:none" href="https://github.com/Layalchristine24">Hidden link used to verify my account on GitHub</a> 
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