[ANN] - AcademicWebsite.jl

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I’d like to share my new package AcademicWebsite.jl, which started out as an attempt to remake my personal website using Franklin.jl. Its a website template heavily inspired by the AcademicPages website template. I considered putting it in FranklinTemplates.jl, but I wanted to be able to easily update my personal website as the template developed. So I made it into a package, where it has functions that allow for updating template specific files without changing user specific files.

There is still a lot to improve (even a few bugs that were fixed during the 3-day waiting period), but I would be happy to hear feedback from the Julia community on it. There is already a live-demo linked in the repo to see what is possible with it (was not able to link it here).

I’m also not a web-dev, so suggestions (or PRs) for improving (literally anything on) the site would be greatly appreciated.

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Nice, I have been using hugo academic (which now is called blox or something like that) and have been getting more and more frustrated by it.

Where can I find the demo? I had a look and couldn’t see a link in the repo (just a check mark). Is your personal website done with it? I had a look through your github and it was a purple website.

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My website is indeed purple :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: (I love the color but I’m not fully happy with color scheme for my website yet lol). It is made using the package but I haven’t used the full functionality of the package yet.

I wasn’t able to link it in the original post but maybe now I can. Here is the demo site.

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Thanks!

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Can you please explain why that did not work out?

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Its not that it didn’t work out, but rather that I decided to do more than just make my own website. I figured it would be nice to make a template for others to also use. Turning it into a package was just to make it easier to update an existing website.