academic-site

A small example of a personal website for a research scientist. View how it looks rendered and hosted on github.

Material based on the Jekyll step by step tutorial, but relies on Github Actions, instead of a local Jekyll installation.

To use, only two steps (and maybe a third):

1. Fork this repository,
   • name it yourusername.github.io
   • Edit _config.yml so that url: points to your site URL,
   • and update your github settings to render on push.
   • Check that your github pages updates when you commit and push to github. Can take 10 minutes to update.
2. Edit the markdown pages (index.md, research.md, organisation.md) and add your content.
   • Of course things will break! Look under the hood of what is happening automagically when you push.
3. If you want more pages:
   • Add a new markdown file, e.g. awards.md
   • Edit _data/navigation.yml to include the new page.

Some other resources

This page uses the midnight theme. Change it by choosing some other name (e.g. from github's jekyll themes), and editing the line remote_theme: in _config.yml.