personal-site.md

Personal Academic Website

Potentially popular workshop, I've had several people ask for advice about this. As opposed to other precedence for this kind of workshop, I think it'd be good to be very open to the customizations that people want to make, as opposed to walk through a specific template.

Intro Talk

Topics:

Hosting options:

• School website
  • free
  • quickest for existing static files (html, css)
  • NEED TO ASK ABOUT GLASGOW
• GitHub pages
  • free
  • quickest if you already like one of the templates
  • many examples/templates
    • academicpages
    • Augustinas
    • Adam Howes
    • many here
  • Some examples involve site generation (not just static files)
    • Not just HTML, CSS, JS
    • possibly cleaner to update when familiar
    • site generation taken care of by github actions
  • No server-side code (only one-time generation)
    • interactivity only possible if all logic in browser
      • esoteric example
• Hosting services
  • typically monthly billing
  • upload static files
  • potential to run server-side code (likely irrelevant)
• WYSIWYG editors
  • quickest to create+host something from scratch
  • examples:
    • GAeL (https://sites.google.com/view/gaelxxx/home)
    • GEARS (https://sites.google.com/view/gears-seminar/2022-23)
  • options:
    • Squarespace
    • Wix
    • Weebly
    • Wordpress
    • Google Sites
    • etc.

Domain names:

• Longer term pricing (e.g. 10 GBP/year)
• should be able to use with any above options

Workshop Section

For this topic in particular, it's more likely that attendants will arrive with their own ideas in mind. It's worth asking ahead of time to potentially help.

Useful Expertise to Have on Standby:

• Patrick, Adrian, David (using school website)
• Sam (using google sites)
• Luke (github actions/pages)