workshop-template

A Jekyll template for a simple workshop website, based on the Minima theme, designed for hosting on gh-pages.

Works best for about 5 pages of instructions, plus index, all written in Markdown. The navigation to the main pages is exposed at top and bottom of each page for easy stepping through the lessons.

p.s. this is the minimal template–for a slightly more refined look, try the Bootstrap version workshop-template-b

Why?

Rather than making slides for a workshop, why not make a website? It’s easier to write, access, share, and reuse. GitHub and gh-pages makes this super easy.

It is a better Open Educational Resource since anyone can fork and adapt!

Details

The workshop-template repository is a template project–to get started quickly, make a copy and fill in your own content and customizations. The site demonstrates the output on gh-pages, and the content pages serve as examples.

Overview:

1. Copy the code to your own repository by clicking the green “Use this template” button (alternatively, import the repository on GitHub or manually copy the files into a new repo).
2. Clone to your local machine, or work on the GitHub web interface to edit files.
3. Edit the _config.yml with your info.
4. Edit the content pages in markdown.
5. Add images to the “images” folder.
6. Push to GitHub (or commit on the web interface).
7. In your repo’s settings, activate gh-pages, using main branch.

When creating content pages:

• to include a page in the nav, add nav: true to the file’s yml front matter.
• the title: value will appear in the nav, sorted in the order of filenames. For simplicity use leading numbers in the lesson page filenames to create correct order.
• the default layout does not add title to the page, so it can be a short for the nav. Add a title in the Markdown content.

Basic style customization:

• the main.scss in the css folder exposes variables that can customize the basic style of website.
• Give a tiny splash of color on the header and footer borders by tweaking the $border-color
• $link-color colors links

Using optional google analytics:

• add your analytics id to _config.yml in google-analytics-id:
• if google-analytics-id: is blank, the ga code will not added
• analytics code will only be added when using “production” environment. This happens automatically on gh-pages. To build locally, use JEKYLL_ENV=production jekyll build

Repository does not include a Gemfile because it is a very simple project. Originally built using Ruby 2.3+ and Jekyll 3.4+; most recently used Jekyll 3.8.1.

Demos

My workshop sites using versions of this template:

• get-git
• hello-arduino
• clean-your-data
• go-go gh-pages
• Make @ the MILL