Also, highly suggest making sure there are links to auto-updating sites such as Google Scholar or ImpactStory so that information doesn't need to be maintained constantly.
best, --titus On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:10:19AM -0500, Brendan Smithyman wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Research websites usually end up hosted on a department computer, and usually > only support basic server-side web technologies (i.e., they probably just > send files to the web browser when asked, without much fancy extra > processing). If users are Unix-savvy, they can probably upload using scp or > rsync, but new users might find something like 'filezilla' to be more useful, > with a graphical interface. Or, if the server has git installed, they can > just store the site in a git repository and clone it on the web server. > > In terms of creating content, users could learn to use a 'static site > generator', which takes a lot of the pain out of the process and allows users > to write in markdown, for example. Well-known examples would be Jekyll, Hyde, > or Hugo. I'm partial to mkdocs, but it's more targeted for generating > software documentation. > > Teaching good practices for web design from scratch is more than a quick > workshop, so I'd focus on presenting a few useful tools, and the info needed > to find others and/or more extensive training. > > Hope this helps! > > Cheers, > Brendan > > ??? > > Brendan Smithyman > Postdoctoral Fellow > > Western University, Earth Sciences > Biological & Geological Sciences, Rm. 1045 > London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 > c. 778.990.5957 > > On Dec 14, 2015 9:40 AM, "Ma, Keith Frederick" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > A group of graduate students here at Boston Univ. contacted me for help > > planning and running a workshop on making research websites. The vision is > > to provide an overview of some popular tools and what they are capable of, > > followed by some time for the students to start working on their own > > websites with the instructors and each other to help. This is still in the > > early planning stages, with a tentative date in late February. > > > > I don't have much (any) experience in making websites, and am unfamiliar > > with the associated software and hosting services. Can anyone provide some > > advice about what we should include? Does anyone have experience running a > > similar workshop? > > > > Many thanks, > > Keith Ma > > ?? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
