This repository is Software Carpentry's template for creating websites for workshops. Do not fork this repository directly on GitHub. Instead, follow the instructions below to create a website repository for your workshop (and possibly a second repository for your learners to use in your Git lessons).
If you are teaching Git, you should create a separate repository for learners to use in that lesson. You should not have them use the workshop website repository because:
your workshop website repository contains many files that most learners don't need to see during the lesson, and
you probably don't want to accidentally merge a damaging pull request from a novice Git user into your workshop's website while you are using it to teach.
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Download the workshop website creation script from http://files.software-carpentry.org/swc-workshop-create.
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Make sure that you are not inside another Git repository.
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Run the workshop website creation script with no parameters - it will print a help message telling you what parameters it needs.
You need to use
$ bash swc-workshop-create
or change file mode with
$ chmod +x swc-workshop-create
before run the script by
$ ./swc-workshop-create
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Run the script with those parameters.
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Go into your newly-created repository.
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Edit
index.html
. Hints are embedded in the file, and full instructions are in CUSTOMIZATION.md. -
If you have installed the software described below:
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Check your changes by running
tools/check.py
inside your repository. -
Preview your changes by running
tools/preview
and looking at_site/index.html
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For some links work properly, including the one to Eventbrite, you will need to look at
_site/index.html
provide by a HTTP server that can be done using$ jekyll server -d _site
and look at http://localhost:4000.
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Commit your changes and push to the
gh-pages
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Send the workshop coordinators the URL for your GitHub repository.
If the identifier for your workshop is 2015-07-01-esu
, and your
GitHub username is ghopper
, your workshop repository will be
https://github.com/ghopper/2015-07-01-esu
and the website for your
workshop will be https://ghopper.github.io/2015-07-01-esu
. (Note:
the workshop coordinators will want the former URL, not the latter.)
You can set up your repository manually instead of using the automated
create
script. As above, we will assume that your user ID is
ghopper
and the identifier for your workshop is 2015-07-01-esu
.
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Create an empty repository on GitHub called
2015-07-01-esu
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Clone the template repository to your computer in a directory with the same name as your workshop identifier:
$ git clone -b gh-pages -o upstream https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template.git 2015-07-01-esu
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Go into that directory using
$ cd 2015-07-01-esu
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Add your GitHub repository as a remote called
origin
using$ git remote add origin https://github.com/ghopper/2015-07-01-esu.git
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Edit
index.html
. Hints are embedded in the file, and full instructions are in CUSTOMIZATION.md. -
If you have installed the software described below:
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Check your changes by running
tools/check.py
inside your repository. -
Preview your changes by running
tools/preview
and looking at_site/index.html
. -
For some links work properly including the one to Eventbrite you will need to look at
_site/index.html
provide by a HTTP server that can be done using$ jekyll server -d _site
and look at http://localhost:4000.
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Commit your changes and push to the
gh-pages
branch of your repository using$ git push origin gh-pages
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Manually add the other instructors as collaborators to your Github repository.
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Send the workshop coordinators the URL for your GitHub repository.
Note that SSH cloning (as opposed to the HTTPS cloning used above) will also work for those who have set up SSH keys with GitHub.
In order to preview the workshop website locally on your computer, you must install the software described below.
If you aren't able to install this software (or you just can't be bothered), you can still create a website for your workshop. Every time you push a change to your website respository the live website will update automatically, so you can check your changes on the live site instead of locally.
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Jekyll 1.0.3
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Check if Ruby is installed and find its version using command line:
$ ruby -v
The following commands need a minimum version of 1.9.3.
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Install
github-pages
:$ gem install github-pages
or if that doesn't work:
$ gem install jekyll $ gem install kramdown
We use Kramdown to translate Markdown into HTML, instead of the default Redcarpet, because Kramdown handles Markdown inside HTML blocks.
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The Python YAML module
If you are using the Anaconda Python distribution, you probably already have it; if you don't, you can install it with:
$ conda install pyyaml
If you are using some other distribution, you can install the Python YAML module using Pip:
$ pip install pyyaml
and if you are on Debian Linux, you can use:
$ apt-get install python-yaml
The final step in creating a website for your workshop is to customize its home page by following these instructions. This FAQ includes a few extra tips --- additions are always welcome --- and these notes on the background and design of this template may help as well.
Mail us at [email protected], or join our discussion list and ask for help there.
We are committed to offering a pleasant setup experience for our learners and organizers. If you find bugs in our instructions, or would like to suggest improvements, please file an issue or mail us.