This repository holds the content for the shared eReefs Platform website with overview information about the eReefs collaboration, and links to eReefs applications and data.

• Website Content
  • Content Pages
  • Collections
  • Navigation Menus
  • Page Footer
  • Page Meta
  • Visual Identity
• Website Hosting
• Development Environment

All files related to the content and styling of this website are in the ./docs folder of this repository. We use Jekyll and kramdown-style MarkDown for the content of this website.

These pages also makes use of the remote-theme: Minimal Mistakes. Please refer to the Quick-Start Guide for more information about using this theme.

MarkDown pages created in the ./docs folder will be converted to .html files by Jekyll and published in the ./docs/_site/ folder.

e.g. a top-level page ./docs/<filename>.md will be compiled to /_site/<filename>.html, and will be available at /filename.html in the published website.

Any markdown files in subfolders where the subfolder name does not have an underscore (_) as a prefix will have the subfolder name as part of the URL for that page.

e.g. a file at ./docs/<foldername>/<childname>.md will end up compiled to /_site/<foldername>/<childname>.html, and will be available at /<foldername>/<childname>.html in the published website.

Each content page must have a header section which defines the meta-properties of the page, which may override the global defaults configured in the _config.yml file. Supported fields include:

• classes: wide: include this if you are not including toc: true to allow your content to take up the full width of the page.
• header: override the default page-banner for your section of the site. Fields include:
  • overlay_image: the image to be used as the background for the banner
  • caption: the caption (photo credit) for the background image.
• layout: one of single (for a single-column page: this is the default) or splash used for the landing / home page. See https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/layouts/ for all supported layouts.
• permalink: the site-relative URL that the page will be available at if this is different from the default URL derived from the name and location of the file.
• title: (Defaults to the section-title based on the path of your page)
• toc: whether a table of contents should be autogenerated for this page. If this is true, then the table of contents will be displayed on the right-hand sidebar.
• toc_sticky: whether the table of contents should always be kept in view when the page is scrolled.

Subfolders of the ./docs folder which have an underscore (_) prefix contain markdown snippets which contain the content for collections. These are groups of related content which can all be rendered together in a list on a page.

Collection files are not rendered as individual pages on the site, but can be referenced on other pages as required. Please see the Jekyll Collections Documentation for information about how to use collections.

The site defines the following collections:

• collaborators: information about eReefs collaboration partners
• funding: one snippet for each funding agency
• tools: one snippet for each eReefs platform component that has its own URL

The Navigation structure for this website is defined in docs/_data/navigation.yml

The main list defined in that file is the primary eReefs navigation menu and appears on the left-hand side of the titlebar for the website. It should be replicated by all other eReefs websites in order for the various components of the eReefs platform to offer a common navigation structure. Sub-menus are not supported.

The sidebar menu is displayed on the left-hand sidebar of most pages in the site (ones that don't use the splash layout).

Tables of contents can be autogenerated from the heading-structure of a page and displayed in the right-hand sidebar by specifying toc: true in the header section of the page in question. See https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/helpers/#table-of-contents for more information about tables of contents.

The page footer that is common to all pages in the site is defined in docs/_includes/footer/custom.html

Meta tags and any other content that should appear in the <head/> section of each page on the site can be added to the file at docs/_includes/head/custom.html.

This includes:

• Favicon
• Google Analytics
• Stylesheet references

These pages make use of the Minimal Mistakes remote-theme to handle page layouts. Please refer to the Quick-Start Guide for more information about using this theme.

The eReefs Visual Identity is them imposed by a site-specific stylesheet that overrides the default theme styles. This is included via the

All stylesheets and images that support the look and feel of this site and other ereefs websites can be found in the docs/assets subdirectory of this repository.

This page displays APA like references based on the files included ./docs/_data/publications/ directory. These files follow the citation file format cff. The page templates expects the top level message field to be the year of publication and all references should be under the top level references tag.

To speed up creating the references this tool cff-generator allows you to input the DOI for a given reference and outputs a cff file that can be copied under the references section of each file. (you should typically copy every tag under and including authors into the references tag in the cff file)

These files can be validated using the python library cffconvert. e.g.

cffconvert --validate -i ./docs/_data/publications/2013.yml

This repository is configured as a GitHub Pages website.

The docs content of the main branch of this repository is automatically published to www.ereefs.org.au when a new commit is pushed or merged to that branch.

Developers with administrator-level access to the repository can access the configuration for this publication workflow at https://github.com/eReefs/ereefs.github.io/settings/pages.

The root of this repository contains files to help you develop this website offline using docker and docker compose.

To run a development copy of the site:

git clone git@github.com:eReefs/ereefs.github.io.git
cd ereefs.github.io
docker compose build
docker compose up

The site will be available to you at [http://localhost:4000/]

Changes that you make to the content files in the ./docs folder will be automatically available to you as soon as you refresh each page.

If you are making changes to the site, you should make a feature-branch to work in, and ensure you test your changes in this way before committing them. When you are ready, push your feature-branch to GitHub and make a pull-request against the main branch to get your changes published.