yuntongzhang/yuntongzhang.github.io

Personal webpage

al-folio

Personal webpage built with Jekyll with al-folio theme.

Setup

Installation

Assuming you have Ruby and Bundler installed on your system (hint: for ease of managing ruby gems, consider using rbenv). Clone this repo and do:

$ git clone <this-repo>
$ cd <repo-name>
$ bundle install
$ bundle exec jekyll serve

Deployment

Deploying your website to GitHub Pages is the most popular option. Starting version v0.3.5, al-folio will automatically re-deploy your webpage each time you push new changes to your repository! ✨

1. Rename your repository to <your-github-username>.github.io or <your-github-orgname>.github.io.
2. In _config.yml, set url to https://<your-github-username>.github.io and leave baseurl empty.
3. Set up automatic deployment of your webpage (see instructions below).
4. Make changes, commit, and push!
5. After deployment, the webpage will become available at <your-github-username>.github.io.

To enable automatic deployment:

1. Click on Actions tab and Enable GitHub Actions; do not worry about creating any workflows as everything has already been set for you.
2. Make any other changes to your webpage, commit, and push. This will automatically trigger the Deploy action.
3. Wait for a few minutes and let the action complete. You can see the progress in the Actions tab. If completed successfully, in addition to the master branch, your repository should now have a newly built gh-pages branch.
4. Finally, in the Settings of your repository, in the Pages section, set the branch to gh-pages (NOT to master). For more details, see Configuring a publishing source for your GitHub Pages site.

Some features

Publications

Your publications page is generated automatically from your BibTex bibliography. Simply edit _bibliography/papers.bib. You can also add new *.bib files and customize the look of your publications however you like by editing _pages/publications.md.

(click to expand) Author annotation:

In publications, the author entry for yourself is identified by string scholar:last_name and string array scholar:first_name in _config.yml:

scholar:
  last_name: Einstein
  first_name: [Albert, A.]

If the entry matches the last name and one form of the first names, it will be underlined. Keep meta-information about your co-authors in _data/coauthors.yml and Jekyll will insert links to their webpages automatically. The coauthor data format in _data/coauthors.yml is as follows,

"Adams":
  - firstname: ["Edwin", "E.", "E. P.", "Edwin Plimpton"]
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Plimpton_Adams

"Podolsky":
  - firstname: ["Boris", "B.", "B. Y.", "Boris Yakovlevich"]
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Podolsky

"Rosen":
  - firstname: ["Nathan", "N."]
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Rosen

"Bach":
  - firstname: ["Johann Sebastian", "J. S."]
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach

  - firstname: ["Carl Philipp Emanuel", "C. P. E."]
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Philipp_Emanuel_Bach

If the entry matches one of the combinations of the last names and the first names, it will be highlighted and linked to the url provided.

(click to expand) Buttons (through custom bibtex keywords):

There are several custom bibtex keywords that you can use to affect how the entries are displayed on the webpage:

• abbr: Adds an abbreviation to the left of the entry. You can add links to these by creating a venue.yaml-file in the _data folder and adding entries that match.
• abstract: Adds an "Abs" button that expands a hidden text field when clicked to show the abstract text
• arxiv: Adds a link to the Arxiv website (Note: only add the arxiv identifier here - the link is generated automatically)
• bibtex_show: Adds a "Bib" button that expands a hidden text field with the full bibliography entry
• html: Inserts a "HTML" button redirecting to the user-specified link
• pdf: Adds a "PDF" button redirecting to a specified file (if a full link is not specified, the file will be assumed to be placed in the /assets/pdf/ directory)
• supp: Adds a "Supp" button to a specified file (if a full link is not specified, the file will be assumed to be placed in the /assets/pdf/ directory)
• blog: Adds a "Blog" button redirecting to the specified link
• code: Adds a "Code" button redirecting to the specified link
• poster: Adds a "Poster" button redirecting to a specified file (if a full link is not specified, the file will be assumed to be placed in the /assets/pdf/ directory)
• slides: Adds a "Slides" button redirecting to a specified file (if a full link is not specified, the file will be assumed to be placed in the /assets/pdf/ directory)
• website: Adds a "Website" button redirecting to the specified link

You can implement your own buttons by editing the bib.html file.

Theming

Six beautiful theme colors have been selected to choose from. The default is purple, but you can quickly change it by editing $theme-color variable in the _sass/_themes.scss file. Other color variables are listed there as well.

Contributing

Contributions to al-folio are very welcome! Before you get started, please take a look at the guidelines.

If you would like to improve documentation, add your webpage to the list below, or fix a minor inconsistency or bug, please feel free to send a PR directly to master. For more complex issues/bugs or feature requests, please open an issue using the appropriate template.

Core Contributors

Maruan

Rohan Deb Sarkar

Amir Pourmand

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Originally, al-folio was based on the *folio theme (published by Lia Bogoev and under the MIT license). Since then, it got a full re-write of the styles and many additional cool features.