Robert Henderson Website

This website is generated using Pelican, a static site generator written in Python. It was migrated from the deprecated pygreen generator.

Project Structure

• content/: Contains the source Markdown files.
  • content/pages/: Static pages like the home page (index.md).
  • content/papers/: Individual paper entries.
• theme/rhenderson/: Custom Bootstrap-based Pelican theme.
• resources/: Static assets like PDFs and CV (mirrored in content/resources/ for Pelican processing).
• pelicanconf.py: Main configuration file for development.
• publishconf.py: Configuration for production/publication.
• tasks.py: Automation tasks for building and deploying (using invoke).

Local Development

1. Environment Setup:

   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install pelican markdown boto3 invoke

2. Build the site:

   pelican content
   # OR
   invoke build

3. Preview the site:

   pelican --listen
   # OR
   invoke serve

   Visit http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

Content Management

Adding a New Paper

Add a new .md file to content/papers/ with the following metadata at the top:

Title: My Paper Title
Date: YYYY-MM-DD
Category: Papers
Slug: my-paper-slug

Updating the Home Page

Modify content/pages/index.md.

Deployment

To deploy the site to an AWS S3 bucket:

invoke s3_upload --bucket-name=your-s3-bucket-name

Ensure your AWS CLI is configured with the necessary permissions.