Personal website building for dummies

Skillz Hour - Mar.20 2018 - Personal website building for dummies (read: PhDs)

Outline

1. What to include in a personal website
2. How to build a website with a fork (github page)
3. How to build a website with SB You
4. Concluding remarks

1. What to include in a personal webstie

Chong Zhang

Robert Pasternak

Thomas Graf

A common list of components

• About/Home
  • Self-intro
  • Reseach interests
  • Contact info
• Research
  • Publications
  • Presentations
  • Invited talks
  • etc
• Teaching
  • Past experience
  • Website for current course
• (maybe) CV
• (maybe) News
• (maybe) other fun stuff

2. How to build a website with a fork (github page)

This is a static site genterater modified from Jekyll-now for skillz hour demostration.

a. Steps

• register github account (if you do not have one already)
• fork here
• play!

b. A quick to-do list to get you started

• read readme (always a good place to start :)
• change site info in _config.yml
• change page-name in page-name.md
• add news in /_posts/

c. Notes

• to change pages, go to name-of-the-page.md
• to change homepage layout, go to index.html
• to change which pages to show, go to /_layouts/default.html
• this markdown cheatsheet might be helpful

2. How to build a website with SB You

a. Steps

• Log in
• Play!

b. notes

• to add pages, go to pages - add new
• to change homepage to about, go to appearance - customize - static front page - front page

3. Concluding remarks

a. github vs. SB You

b. other (free) alternatives

• Github page
  • more basic stuff that powers our jekyll-based site generator
• Wordpress
  • very similar to SB You
• and many more

c. domain names

• check out here and here
• domains using one’s name is (I think) a common practice, but see here :)
• try to avoid stuff like bigsyntax.guru