The webpage is created using Jekyll theme Minimal Mistakes guide. The pages are written in markdown. A guide for using markdown in github. This affects how the page is formatted (fonts, tables, links etc).
- Minimal mistakes formatting sheet
- https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/
- https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/
- https://pages.github.com/
- Youtube tutorial : Jekyll - Static Site Generator
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Open _posts folder
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Create new file
- Create a new file
- Name the file using the following convention: YYYY-MM-DD-meaningful-title.md
- If you want the post to be published at a later time point, use XXX instead of the date.
- Add front matter markdown file (.md)
- copy and update (e.g. new title) the Front matter from an existing _post into the top of the new _post file. This is the text between the --- is not rendered on the webpage. The front matter allows page-specific variables to be included at the top of a page.
- Learn more : https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/posts/
- Add the main content to the page
- using markdown syntext add the main content to the page
- include who, what, where and how in the news and article and how it relates to UKSRC (e.g. team member contributing to the teaching, someone presenting, using our hpc resources).
- Publish the page
- Press commit changes (green button)
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Open _pages folder
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To edit a page click on the pencil icon
- Create new file
- Create a new file
- give it a "meaninful-title.md"
- Add front matter to the _page. This can be copied from an existing page in the folder.
- Publish the page
- Press commit changes (green button)