Jekyll-Conference-Template

An academic conference website template built using Jekyll.

The site generated by this repo can be seen here

Features

• A data file (_data/conference.yml) to configure all conference information.
  • full_title: conference fullname e.g., First xxx conference on xxxx, 2017.
  • short_title: conference shortname e.g., xxxx2017
  • descriptioin: short description about the conference (< 160 char)
  • location: conference location
  • logo_path: conference logo
  • slideshow: images slideshow
  • navbar: navigation menu.
  • news: news section.
  • sponsors: sponsor section.
  • deadlines: important dates of deadlines, pass-due date will be automatically printed with del line.
  • social_media: social media on the navbar. (current support facebook and twitter.)
  • organizing_committees: organzizing committees
  • steering_committees: steering committees - Renamed to Local Host
  • program_committees: program committees
  • more configuratioins to come.
• Google Analytics: in _config.yml
• Font-awesome
• Bootstrap v4.

Reference Based on @yishanhe's jekyll-conference-template.

Usage

Conference details

The text about the conference for the main page is directly in index.html file. The bulk of the details about the conference are held in the _data/conference.yml file. E.g. the title, dates, organisers names, image locations for slideshow, and sponsors. NB - the images for the carousel should be approx 16:9 ratio,

Schedule

The schedule is stored in the file _data/schedule.yml To update the schedule, committ the updated schedule.yml file to the repository, the website will automatically update within a few minutes. The layout of the schedule.ylm file is by date, and time slots, added chronologically in the file e.g.

• date: "2021-11-10" dateReadable: "2021-Nov-10" timeslots:
  • startTime: "8:50" endTime: "9:00" title: "Opening remarks"
• startTime: "9:00" endTime: "10:00" title: "Keynote: Personalized Medicine" speaker: "Leslie Biesecker (NIH/NHGRI)" abstract: "Personalized medicine is the way forward, discuss..." chair: "Lynn Schriml" etc...

you can add a type to any time slot to change the way its presented, e.g. type: "presentation" allows you to nest time slots into a session, or type:"service" changes the colour to display e.g. for lunched and coffee breaks.