This project is a template for a simple portfolio of pictures and p5.js sketches.

Live Demo

https://benjaminhabert.github.io/jekyll-p5-portfolio/

Features

• free hosting using github-pages
• homepage with all your projects represented as thumbnails
• simple file structure: each project has is own directory in _projects containing all the files for this project.
• simple galleries of pictures
• easy to manage list of dependencies if you want to create projects using other libraries than p5.js.
• live-reload activated in development environment (just run jekyll serve, modify a file and the browser auto-realoads to take into acount the changed).

Using this template for you own portfolio

Step 1: github

Assuming that you already have a github account:

• fork this repository. This will create a copy of all the code in a new repository https://github.com/<your_username>/jekyll-p5-portfolio/settings

• go to the settings of your newly created repository.

  • at the top of the page change the name of the repository: jekyll-p5-portfolio -> <cool_name> and hit rename
  • In the Github Pages section select master branch as the source and hit save.

• the website is now available at https://<your_username>.github.io/<cool_name>/ (this might take a minute).

Step 2: customization

You might want to change the website name or add a link to your twitter account.

Edit the _config.yml file. You can do this either using github interface or by cloning the repository on your machine and pushing the changes back to the master branch. The following fields can be edited:

title: Your awesome title
email: [email protected]
description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
  Write an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this
  line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for
  Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.
baseurl: "/jekyll-p5-portfolio" # replace with "/<cool_name" : the name of your repository
twitter_username: jekyllrb
github_username:  <your_username>

You can change the content of the file aboud.md to give info about yourself or your project.

You can replace the content of README.md (this file). In particular you should link to your own repository in the Live Demo section.

Step 3: create your first sketch

The easiest point to start is to create a copy of the directory simple_sketch in the folder _projects with a new directory name.

• replace the content of simple_sketch.js with a new code that you wrote.
• create a thumbnail picture for you sketch (advice: use only square pictures as thumbnails) and save it in simple_sketch/<my_thumbnail.png>
• edit the content of simple_sketch/p5project.md, especially the beginning of the file (front-matter). Do not remove p5 from the list of dependencies.

---
layout: post
title:  "<title of the post>"
date:   <today's date with format 2017-07-25>
thumbnail: <my_thumbnail.png>
dependencies:
    - p5
---

Warning: make sure that your p5 script is properly linked to a div element in your post. See here for more info.

Once you are done modifying the project, commit your changes. Github will automatically update the home page to include your new project. The home page shows the projetcs' thumbnails and lists them by date from most to least recent.

Going further

Each post in the template project explains a simple feature of this portfolio. Browse the live website for more infos.

Local development using jekyll

This portfolio website was build using jekyll (see here for installation). The easiest way to add new content to your portfolio is to download the website, edit locally and send the updated version to github. In the terminal:

$ git clone https://github.com/<your_username>/<cool_name>.git
$ cd <cool_name>
$ jekyll serve  # this will serve the website locally at http://localhost:4000/<cool_name>/

You can modify the files in _projects/; your browser should update to reflect the changes. Once you are done modifying files and want to update the actual website:

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "new p5 project added on the website"
$ git push

Once you push changes to the remote repository (on the master branch), github will update the actual website.