[NEW CHAPTER] - Building a Personal Website

[aleesteele]

Title

Personal Websites

Guide

Guide for Communication

Draft

No response

Summary of proposed chapter

Building a personal website can be an important form of public communication for researchers, as a place to showcase their work and communicate to a wider audience. Personal websites can host blogs, portfolios, code, digital gardens, and all sorts of content that can widen the reach (and demonstrate openness and/or 'learning in public') of researchers.

However, many people have different ways of approaching or building a personal website.

Based off of a discussion with @SaraVilla, @gedankenstuecke, @srtee, @ha0ye, @sgibson91, @RichardJActon on Slack – this is to kickstart a new chapter addition to the Guide for Communication on building a personal website.

Resources

• https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/blogging-with-hugo-and-github-pages/
• http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/
• Github pages:
  • https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io
  • https://github.com/timothygebhard/minimal-academic-website
  • https://github.com/riggraz/no-style-please

Who can help?

Anyone with an interest and/or experience in building a personal website!

Updates

• Write chapter outline
• Add material to the chapter
• Combine materials into a readable chapter
• Proofread
• Create PR and link in the comments
• Request reviews
• Address reviews
• Merge to main branch

[gedankenstuecke]

Here's some resources on why you might want a personal website as an academic:

• https://theacademicdesigner.com/2019/personal-academic-website-benefits/
• https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2019/personal_website/

Then there's another jekyll theme for academic personal pages here: https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio

And I guess there's the question of whether making your own team/lab website would be outside the scope of this, as there's also a lot of resources for that, again for jekyll:

• https://github.com/PeerProducedResearch/jekyll-theme-labwebsite (COI: that's the theme we made & use for the peer-produced research lab)
• https://github.com/rt2lab/rt2lab.github.io
• https://github.com/ericdaat/research-lab-website
• https://github.com/peterdesmet/petridish