Overview

This repository contains a Hugo template designed for creating personal academic websites. It modifies the PaperMod theme to better suit academic websites and creates a more minimalist design. The website can be hosted on GitHub Pages.

Features

• Webpages are organized into categories (papers, courses, and data) accessible from any page through the menu and from the homepage through buttons.
• Automatically generated list of tags for papers and courses for easy navigation.
• Automatically generated archive page to see the most recent additions.
• Provides social icons specific to academia (office hours, Zoom, Substack, and Google Scholar).
• Tailored metadata for webpages in an academic context.
• Streamlined and minimalist color scheme, font, spacing, buttons, and appearance.
• New archetypes for paper pages, course pages, and a search page.

Installation

On your local machine:

1. Clone the repository to your local machine.
2. Install Hugo. On a Mac, you can use Homebrew: run brew install hugo in the terminal.
3. Install GitHub Desktop for easier management and updates.
4. Update the baseURL parameter in config.yml with your chosen website URL.

On your GitHub account:

1. Enable GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages so the website can be built and deployed.
2. Enable the “Deploy Hugo site to Pages” action in the Pages Settings of your GitHub repository.
3. View the workflow triggered by the action in the .github/workflows/hugo.yml file.

Usage

Development:

1. Navigate to the website directory and run hugo server in the terminal.
2. The website will be available at http://localhost:1313.
3. Modify the repository’s content and develop the website locally.

Compilation:

1. Once the website is ready to be made public, run hugo in the terminal from the website directory.
2. Hugo will process the content, templates, and other project files to generate a static website.