Daniel's Portfolio Theme

This portfolio is optimized for researchers and those who strive for a minimal, file-based content management. The complete site's content is based on a json/yaml file per section (e.g., contact.json, projects.json, publications.json, talks.json, and teaching.json) as well as the pages _config.yml information.

Examples

• Carolin Fiedler
• Daniel Limberger (my personal website)
• Willy Scheibel
• Amir Semmo
• Maximilian Söchting

Features

• responsive single-page using Bootstrap 4
• multi-language support
• sections for publications, projects, talks/keynotes, teaching, contact, and more
• section contents loaded from json/yaml data-files (_data)
• unique, distinguishable layouts per section
• dynamic integration of Flickr photo sets (with basic caching)
• php and javascript free contact form using Formspree
• supports deployment using GitHub Pages
• minimizes html and css (currently using compress layout method)
• easy BibTeX provisioning (show, select, and copy to clipboard, or download)
• valid html5 output (nearly-valid css, due to some issues in bootstrap)
• responsive navigation (with scrollspy) comprising a top-page link (author or icon), section links (nav-links or dropdown-items), and a language toggle for all used languages
• support for vCard via file and QR Code
• basic Travis CI integration

Development

This website uses Jekyll, Bootstrap 4, Blueimp Gallery, can access the Flickr API, and Formspree.

Setting up the Build Environment (on Windows)

For the development and testing of the website jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/) is required. A fast and simple setup of jekyll, is possible via chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/) either using the setup.bat script or proceed as follows (for non-Windows platforms the specific package managers, e.g., apt-get, can be used instead of Chocolatey):

• For installing chocolatey open a command prompt as administrator and run the following command:

  @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin
  

• Now close the command prompt and open a new one (not necessarily with administrative priviliges) to install jekyll (which requires ruby) by running:

  choco install ruby -y
  gem install jekyll
  

For deployment of the website, the following optimizations (mostly minimizations) that require node, npm as well as uncss, cssmin, and svgo should be considered.

• Open a command prompt and run;

  choco install nodejs -y
  npm install
  npm update
  

  This should already install all required packages listed in package.json.
• However, if a package was not found (e.g., svgo), try manually installing it by running:

  npm install -g svgo
  

Building the Website (any platform)

• Auto rebuilding (on any change) and watching the website (stored in '_site') can be done by running (requires only jekyll)

  jekyll serve
  

  With the server running, the website should be available at http://localhost:4000.