Jekyll-Conference-Template

An academic conference website template built using Jekyll.

Features

• A data file (_data/conference.yml) to configure all conference information.
  • full_title: conference fullname e.g., First xxx conference on xxxx, 2017.
  • short_title: conference shortname e.g., xxxx2017
  • descriptioin: short description about the conference (< 160 char)
  • location: conference location
  • logo_path: conference logo
  • slideshow: images slideshow
  • navbar: navigation menu.
  • news: news section.
  • sponsors: sponsor section.
  • deadlines: important dates of deadlines, pass-due date will be automatically printed with del line.
  • social_media: social media on the navbar. (current support facebook and twitter.)
  • organizing_committees: organzizing committees
  • steering_committees: steering committees
  • technical_program_committees: technical program committees
  • more configuratioins to come.
• Google Analytics: in _config.yml
• Font-awesome
• Bootstrap v4.

Preview

home page

committees page

Deadlines

Admin page

mobile version

Usage

with Jekyll Admin.

TODO

• add https://www.timeanddate.com/ link to deadlines.
• seperate some layouts/includes into a theme, make the project extensible with different themes.
• Jekyll-admin integrated
• use Jekyll posts to update news.
• clean Jekyll pages, put html code into layout/includes, pure markdown in pages.
• Makefile integration for docker run, ssh upload, rsync