Creating/Editing Bio-IT GitLab templates

In the context of the Bio-IT Git Week, we developed a lesson called “Building Websites with GitLab”. The lesson, borrowed inspiration from The Carpentries model and includes hands-on exercises on how to host web pages on GitLab, starting from HTML files, Markdown or reStructuredText.

The lesson goes through all the basic steps to build three template projects:

  • A GitLab pages template based on plain HTML, featuring an example on how to embed a presentation and a video in the webpage.
  • A GitLab pages template based on Jekyll, including an “About” subpage.
  • A GitLab pages template based on Sphinx, including a table of content with an “About” subpage and the default Sphinx theme.

These templates are available in the EMBL GitLab platform, and can be used for various purposes including: setting up your group’s webpage, designing an event webpage, hosting training materials.

We would like to further develop these templates (and eventually include others) to meet the needs of our community at EMBL, with a specific focus on the webpages hosting training materials and courses.

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