Build A Free Website In Minutes - Part 4

We have the website up and running in Part-3. If you have not completed that part, please do so before continuing this part.

Personalize Academic website

This part will include the following sections:

• Choose the right theme
• Set the site title
• Set the copyright
• Set the site icon
• Select the sections
• Set Google Analytics
• Configure the Menu
• Add dropdown menu
• Add your content

Choose the right theme

Check out the available themes and choose a design you love. Set the configuration in file ‘site_root/config/_default/params.toml’. I leave the default as is.

theme = "minimal"

Set the site title

Set the title in file ‘site_root/config/_default/config.toml’. In my case, the ‘flycoolman’ is used.

title = "flycoolman"

Set the copyright

Set the copyright in file ‘site_root/config/_default/config.toml’, i.e.

copyright = "©{year}  flycoolman.com All Rights Reserved"

Set the site icon

Save your icon image named icon.png and place the image in your root assets/images/ folder, creating the assets and images folders if they don’t already exist.

Select the sections

All the sections of the demo home page in the folder ‘site_root/content/home’. See the picture below:

There is a setting called ‘active’ in each file/section, just set the value to ‘false’, if you don’t want it in your home page.

Set Google Analytics

Set the Google Analytics in file ‘site_root/config/_default/params.toml’ with your Google Analytics Tracking ID.

google_analytics = "UA-123456789-6"

Configure the Menu

The Menu on Navigation bar can be configured by change the settings in file ‘site_root/config/_default/menus.toml’, i.e.

• Remove current one by deleting or commenting out the corresponding item
• Rename current one by changing the value of ‘name’
• Add new one by adding additional part of ‘[[main]]’
• Rearrange the order by changing the value of ‘weight’

Add dropdown menu

To create a dropdown sub-menu, add identifier = “something” to the parent item and parent = “something” to the child item. The pictures below show how to add dropdown menu in file ‘site_root/config/_default/menus.toml’.

Add your content

Go to the folder ‘site_root/content/post/’, select one post as template, write your own post. Refer to the links below for markdown syntax.

All set! Enjoy writing!

Links

How-To Academic

https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/get-started/ https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/page-builder/

How-To Markdown

https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/ https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/ https://simplpost.com/markdown.html

Add Utterances Comment Engine

https://mscipio.github.io/post/utterances-comment-engine/

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