Zhanyu Yang Personal Site

A streamlined Jekyll site centered on three custom pages:

• Home: /
• Custom 404: /404.html
• Publications: /publications-custom.html

Current Architecture

Core page entries:

• index.md -> layout: home-custom
• 404.html -> layout: 404-custom
• publications-custom.html -> layout: publications-custom

Core layouts:

• _layouts/home-custom.html
• _layouts/404-custom.html
• _layouts/publications-custom.html
• _layouts/compress.html

Core styles:

• assets/css/main.scss (imports home styles)
• assets/css/404.scss
• assets/css/publications.scss
• _sass/_custom_home.scss
• _sass/_custom_404.scss

Core data files:

• _data/home_publications.yml
• _data/home_news.yml
• _data/home_awards.yml
• _data/publications_full.yml

Is This Still Dependent on Academic Pages?

This site no longer depends on the original Academic Pages page/layout set.

What remains from the initial scaffold is shared Jekyll infrastructure (for example some includes, Sass/vendor assets, and config conventions) already copied into this repository. In other words:

• No runtime dependency on the upstream academicpages repository
• Site builds from this repo alone
• Architecture is now custom-page driven

Local Development

1. Install Ruby + Bundler.
2. Install dependencies:

bundle install

3. Start local server:

bundle exec jekyll serve -l -H localhost

4. Open: http://localhost:4000

Content Editing Guide

Home page

• Layout/content structure: _layouts/home-custom.html
• Home-specific styles: _sass/_custom_home.scss
• Dynamic content:
  • _data/home_publications.yml
  • _data/home_news.yml
  • _data/home_awards.yml

404 page

• Layout/content: _layouts/404-custom.html
• Styles: _sass/_custom_404.scss

Publications page

• Layout/content: _layouts/publications-custom.html
• Styles: assets/css/publications.scss
• Data: _data/publications_full.yml

Deployment

This repository is configured for GitHub Pages-style Jekyll deployment. Pushing to the default branch updates the published site URL.