Next steps — your homepage

The site is up and configured with a minimal placeholder. Here’s what to do next, in order of payoff.

1. Add a headshot

Drop a square PNG (~500×500 px) into images/profile.png, replacing the placeholder. Commit and push and it appears in the sidebar.

2. Fill in the parts left blank in _config.yml

Open _config.yml and search for TODO:. The placeholders worth filling:

• googlescholar — your Google Scholar profile URL
• orcid — your ORCID URL
• bluesky — handle if you have one
• LinkedIn / Twitter — uncomment the lines under “Social media” and add usernames

3. Replace the placeholder about page

Edit _pages/about.md — that’s the landing page. Write whatever bio you want.

4. Add publications

The publications page builds from _publications/ — one Markdown file per paper. The repo includes example files; copy one, rename it, and edit. Each file has YAML frontmatter (title, venue, date, paperurl) and a Markdown abstract.

For a bulk import, you can edit markdown_generator/publications.tsv and run the included Jupyter notebook to generate all the files at once — useful if you have a CV-style list ready to paste.

5. CV

Edit _pages/cv.md directly (it’s the auto-rendered HTML CV), or drop a PDF into files/ and link to it from your about page.

6. Top navigation

_data/navigation.yml controls what shows up in the top menu. Remove anything you don’t want (Portfolio? Blog? Talks?).

7. Trim the example content

Delete the example files in _posts/, _talks/, _publications/, _portfolio/, _teaching/ once you have your own to avoid them showing up on the live site. Or just leave them and override one at a time.

8. Where the live site lives

After the first push, your site builds at: https://leblanguva.github.io. First build takes ~1 minute. Each subsequent push re-builds in ~30 seconds. If something looks broken, check the Actions tab of the repo on github.com — the Pages build log will be there.