dotSlash Programming Community

A programming community founded in IIIT Nagpur. An initiave to inculcate a coding atmosphere and spread awareness about various events and contests happening worldwide. Currently, three tracks have been started under dotSlash.

• Open Source and Software Development.
• Machine Learning
• Competitive Coding

Features of the template used

• Pre-built pages
• Blog page - Where students can post theirblogs
• Contact form - Allows students to drop there queries
• About(to be changed to "Members")- Contains details of founding members
• Configurable footer

Develop

Hydra was built with Jekyll version 3.3.1, but should support newer versions as well.

Install the dependencies with Bundler:

$ bundle install

Run jekyll commands through Bundler to ensure you're using the right versions:

$ bundle exec jekyll serve

Editing

Hydra is already optimised for adding, updating and removing pages, staff, advice, company details and footer elements in CloudCannon.

Posts

• Add, update or remove a post in the Posts collection.
• The Staff Author field links to members in the Staff collection.
• Documentation pages are organised in the navigation by category, with URLs based on the path inside the _docs folder.
• Change the defaults when new posts are created in _posts/_defaults.md.

Contact Form

• Preconfigured to work with CloudCannon, but easily changed to another provider (e.g. FormSpree).
• Sends email to the address listed in company details.

Staff

• Reused around the site to save multiple editing locations.
• Add excluded_in_search: true to any documentation page's front matter to exclude that page in the search results.

Navigation

• Exposed as a data file to give clients better access.
• Set in the Data / Navigation section.

Footer

• Exposed as a data file to give clients better access.
• Set in the Data / Footer section.