Wildfire ML Lab Website

A Jekyll-based GitHub Pages website with four pages: Home · Publications · People · Blog Posts

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Editing Content

All content lives in plain text (Markdown .md) files. No web development knowledge is needed to update them.

Home Page

Edit index.md to change the text on the home page.

Publications

Each publication is a file in _publications/. Copy paper_template.md, rename it with the date and paper slug (e.g. 2024-03-01-wildfire-detection.md), and fill in the fields at the top of the file.

Fields explained:

• title — paper title
• category — manuscripts for journal articles, conferences for conference papers
• date — publication date in YYYY-MM-DD format (controls sort order)
• venue — journal or conference name
• excerpt — one-line description shown in the list
• paperurl / bibtexurl / slidesurl — optional download links (delete any you don't have)
• citation — full citation text shown at the bottom of the paper page

Write a longer description below the --- line. It appears when someone clicks through to the paper.

People

Each person is a file in _people/. Copy an existing file, rename it (e.g. jane_smith.md), and fill in the title and bio.

To add a photo: upload an image to the images/ folder, then reference it in the excerpt line like:

excerpt: "PhD Student<br/><img src='/images/jane_smith.jpg'>"

Blog Posts

Each post is a file in _posts/. The filename must follow the format YYYY-MM-DD-post-slug.md (e.g. 2024-06-01-field-season-recap.md). Fill in the title and date fields, then write your post below the --- line using Markdown.

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Site Settings

Open _config.yml to change:

• Site title, description, URL — under # Basic Site Info
• Sidebar author info (name, bio, photo, GitHub, email, etc.) — under # Sidebar Author Profile
• Navigation links — edit _data/navigation.yml
• Publication categories — under # Publication Categories
• Analytics — under # Analytics

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Adding Images

Upload image files into the images/ folder. Reference them in Markdown as:

![Alt text](/images/your-image.jpg)

Or in a people/publication excerpt as <img src='/images/your-image.jpg'>.

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Running Locally (optional)

Requires Ruby and Bundler. From the project root:

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

Then open http://localhost:4000 in your browser.

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File Structure

_config.yml          ← site settings (start here)
index.md             ← home page content
_data/
  navigation.yml     ← top nav links
_pages/
  publications.html  ← Publications page (no editing needed)
  people.html        ← People page (no editing needed)
  blog.html  ← Blog Posts page (no editing needed)
_publications/       ← one .md file per paper
_people/             ← one .md file per person
_posts/              ← one .md file per blog post
images/              ← photos and favicons
assets/              ← CSS, JS, fonts (no editing needed)
_layouts/            ← page templates (no editing needed)
_includes/           ← reusable HTML snippets (no editing needed)
_sass/               ← stylesheets (no editing needed)