Women in CS at UMass Amherst

Website for the UMass Amherst chapter of Women in CS (WiCS@UMass). Based on Type-on-Strap; both the Type-on-Strap and the Type theme page, on which ToS is based on, has some useful information on front matter conventions.

Adding a new blog post

Jekyll supports Markdown; format accordingly. File names follow the format YYYY-MM-DD-title.md. Submit a pull request for every new post if you don't have push privileges; one of the co-chairs will look over it before adding it to the website. Use the _draft folder to store any articles in progress, and read the sample articles intentionally kept in the _draft folder for a quick markdown refresher. The layout for any event updates or posts should be post with preferably a header image. To add an image to the header use feature-img in the front matter, and for previews on the main website feed use thumbnail.

Managing post assets and media

Place all media in assets. Please organize media by posts as it gets confusing very quickly! All media for posts should go into assets/posts/YYYY-MM-DD-title/title-descriptor.jpg, where YYYY-MM-DD-title is the name of the post. The cover image of the whole website is assets/cover.jpg. To update thumnails for the past events page (under construction), put them under assets/portfolio; a descriptive name is good enough. Profile images for the co-chairs (or any future profile images) will be stored in assetts/profile. A rule of thumb is put all media for a particular post in the same directory, otherwise group by category.

Developing locally

0. Install ruby if it's not installed
1. Clone the repo and cd into the cloned directory
2. Type gem install jekyll to install Jekyll
3. Type bundle install to install dependencies
4. Type jekyll serve to preview changes locally. Note that all updates should be dynamic with the exception of _config.yml (which really shouldn't be touched much, unless something's broken...)

Todo list for the website

• Fix and enrich posts from WECode (Completed 03/14/18)
• Fix thumbnail/gallery issues (Completed 03/15/18)
• Update past events page (currently shows default filler from theme) (Temporarily disabled; Completed 03/15/18)
• Change header size on desktop (Changed to fixed header, Completed 03/15/18)
• Create and use placeholder favicon (Completed 03/10/18)
• Decide on material for front page - news feed or others? (Completed 03/15/18)
• Add news page (Completed 03/15/18)
• Add social media wall with Facebook/Instagram/Twitter integration