How to add a new Staff Profile page ?

  1. Login to your GitHub account. If you don't have an account. Please Sign up .

  2. Go to this link.

  3. Click "Add file" then click "Create new file"

  4. Write the file name (in 'name1-name2.html' format) in the given textbox

  5. Copy and paste the below template to the content below the file name

  6. 
    ---
    layout: staffDetails
    permalink: /staff/academic/name1-name2/
    title: Mr. Name1 Name2
    
    name_below_image: Mr. Name1 Name2
    email: name1name2@somesite.com
    contact_number: +94 12 3456789
    location: 25th floor CE
    
    text_below_name: Senior Lecturer
    
    url_image: images/staff/academic-staff/default.jpg
    url_website: https://some.example.site
    url_google_scholar: #
    url_researchgate: #
    url_linkedin: #
    url_orcid: #
    url_ad_scientific_index: #
    
    designation: Senior Lecturer
    is_hod: false
    on_duty: true
    
    research_interests: ['interest1','interest2']
    ---
        
  7. Edit these variables,
  8. Variable Description
    layout Used internally. Do not change.
    permalink This is the link of the profile page. Change name1-name2 into the persons name. No spaces allowed and it should end with "/".
    title The title of the webpage
    name_below_image Name of the person
    contact_number Contact number of the person
    email Email address of the person
    location Location (room) of the person, in the department building (Ex: 3-CE-01)
    text_below_name Text that will be shown below the name
    url_image Path to the image of the person in the Gihub Repo. This wil be updated later. Skip this for now.
    url_*site* URL of the profile pages in other *sites*
    designation Designation of the person. This is used to group the profiles on the academic staff listing page. Only "Professor", "Senior Lecturer" and "Lecturer" are valid
    is_hod Used to determine if this is the Head of the Department. Only valid entries are "true" and "false".
    on_duty Is this person on duty? Only valid entries are "true" and "false". If this is "false", the staff memeber will be considered as a past academic staff.
    research_interests Research interests of the person. Must be written as an array similar to a python list. Eg: ["interest1","interest2"]
  9. Make your changes to the text below the second "---". This must be written in HTML and will be displayed to the right of the image in the profile page

  10. Scroll down then click the "Propose Changes" button .

  11. Click the "Create Pull Request" button .

  12. Click the "Create Pull Request" button again.

  13. Now an admin will approve these changes within 48hrs.

  14. After it is approved. Follow these instructions to add the profile image