authors

Adding Authors

The next page of the website is page01_people.md. This, pretty obviously, provides information about the authors, links to their personal or group websites, and information about their institutions. All information about the authors is provided in another yaml file stored in the _data/ folder of the root directory. This file is of arbitrary length and can contain as many authors as you see fit. Each author is identified by a specific block, named an author, which has the following syntax:

- author:  # Nothing should be added here, this just instantiates an author block.
  name: Author Name
  link: "https://www.personalwebsite.com"
  img: author_image.png
  institute: Author Institution
  other_info:
    Custom Field: XYZ
    ...

The hyphen - author: instantiates and author block and cannot take any text after the colon :. If there is anything added, it will break the website and will not be built properly. The other fields before other_info: are self explanatory. The field img: is the filename of the avatar for the author, which lives in assets/img/people. If no image is provided, a gender neutral silhouette will be used instead.

Custom fields can be added for the authors in the other_info: field. This field cannot accept any other text after the : as it just instantiates a new block of information. Below other_info:, with proper indentation, you can add custom fields which will be displayed under the author's name following the institution, if provided.

page01_people.md

This is the markdown file which will be populated by all information provided in the author.yaml data file. The frontmatter of the markdown file is as follows:

---
layout: page # Should not be changed
title: People # Title of the page, not the project
description: About the authors # Browser tab description of the page
img: people.png # Location of the header image (must be in assets/)
caption: "Image caption" # Caption in the upper-right of the header image
permalink: people # Address of the page. 
sidebar: true # Boolean -- should link to people page appear in the sidebar?
---