This is the website for the Eastbots robotics team. The website can be found at http://eastbots.com/.
The website is depended upon Jekyll. If you are unfamiliar with this and wish to edit, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself. A working knowledge of Markdown is required; knowledge of HTML and CSS is also helpful Git is used for version control.
All images are found in the assets folder. When uploading images for
a specific website or blog post, please create a special and clearly
marked folder within assets.
To add images to the front page carousel, place them in assets/carousel. Amal's wonderful programming will take care of the rest.
To create a new page from the homepage, create a folder with the desired page name and then an index.md file within that. This serves to improve organization and clean up URLs. Remember to update nav.html when necessary. In the Markdown file, with the Jekyll header should be written as such:
---
title: title
layout: examplelayout
---
Inside of the _includes directory, create a file called examplelayout.html and write the page as normal with references to the index.md file inlcuded as per Jekyll syntax. Upon building, Jekyll will build the website in the _site directory as a combination of these files. Do not edit the files in this directory directly unless you are certain of what you are doing.
The website uses Google Analytics to track analytic data.
To prepare your local computer for testing the website without doing the git commit and etc, First install ruby if you don't have it already. On RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, run this:
sudo yum install ruby-devel
On Debian/Ubuntu, I think this is right: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev
Then following https://jekyllrb.com/resources , run:
gem install bundler jekyll
also probably required:
gem install github-pages
Before comitting, run this command to build a local copy of the site and run a local server for testing:
bundle exec jekyll serve
then point your browser to whatever it says, typically http://localhost:4000
to rebuild site:
bundle exec jekyll build
to clean up generated files after doing a local build, run
bundle exec jekyll clean