Academic Portfolio

A Github Pages template for academic portfolio websites.

Instructions

1. Register a Github account and verify your email address. (If you don't have any)
2. Fork this repository by clicking the Fork button in top-right.
3. From repository settings, change the name of your forked repository to your-github-username.github.io.
4. Modify site-wide configurations to match your requirements from _config.yml.
5. Upload any files (e.g pdf, zip etc.) to files/ directory. These files will appear at https://[your-github-username].github.io/files/example.pdf.
6. To change the site avatar/logo, add your avatar in assets/images directory. Modify _config.yml to reflect your avatar's filename in avatar-filename variable.

avatar-filename: <yourFileName.jpg>

7. Replace assets/favicon.png with your own favicon.
8. To change site contents, add/modify files in different collection's directories.

• Experience: Add/modify the contents from _experiences directory.
• Education: Add/modify the contents from _education directory.
• Skills: Add/modify the contents from _skills directory.
• Projects: Add/modify the contents from _projects directory.
• Publications: Add/modify the contents from _publications directory.
• Certifications: Add/modify the contents from _certifications directory.
• Achievements: Add/modify the contents from _achievements directory.

9. To add/modify blog posts, modify the contents in _posts directory. Follow the given filename structure for blog post e.g. YYYY-MM-DD-my-post-title.md.
10. After github pages deployment, your site will be available at your-github-username.github.io

Enable Disqus Comments on Posts

• Sign up at Disqus
• Register your github site with disqus.
• Get Disqus shortname in admin>settings>general
• Edit your _config.yml of github, make sure it contains following content:

disqus:
    shortname: <your disqus short name>

Enable Contact Form

• Sign up at Formspree
• Create a new form and get the form's endpoint.
• Edit your _config.yml of github, make sure it contains following content:

formspree:
  endpoint: <form's endpoint> # e.g https://formspree.io/f/xxxxxxx

Adding Google Analytics Tracking

• Login to Google Analytics and create a new property to receive a Tracking ID for your website.
• Edit your _config.yml of github, make sure it contains following content:

google_analytics: UA—XXXXXXXX-X

Bug Report/Feature Request

• To report bugs or to request new features, please create a new issue and use appropriate label with the issue.