This is the public-facing frontend site of Rutgers Spring 2022 course 16:560:670:01 Digital Humanities, convened by Lisa Tagliaferri. The site will be under development throughout the length of the course.

The website can be accessed via https://ltagliaferri.github.io/dh-rutgers-2022/.

This site is built with Eleventy and is mostly written in HTML and markdown. If you would like to have a local version of this site, or use the site for a template, you can take the following steps. Note that this repo is set up to serve its contents on GitHub Pages, and there are a few files in this repo that are specific to this workflow, and some less intuitive file pathways. You may need to adapt some of the files to deploy the site through other means.

Clone this code repository by clicking on the green Code button at the top of this repo (in the Code section) and selecting the option that works best for you.

To learn more about cloning repositories, review the GitHub documentation.

Locate the directory on your local machine where you cloned the repository. Within this parent directory run the following command to install packages and dependencies needed to run the software:

npm install

This requires npm to be installed on your machine. If you receive an error message or no output, follow the npm documentation to install npm.

You should receive output that indicates that the relevant packages have installed.

Next, you'll want to use npm to build the site, which you can achieve with the following command.

npm run build

You should receive output that files have been written.

You can now serve the web app, by running the following.

npm start

You'll know that this is working when you get output of how to access the local version of the site. Most likely, you'll be able to now access the site with your web browser of choice from the following URL and port:

http://localhost:8080

If you are having issues, review the terminal output you have received to ensure that the port is correct for your version.

At this point, you can review the site while you edit. You may want to build the site again with the npm run build command while working on the code or content.

If you would like to make a suggestion to this repo (for example, to add resources), feel free to open an issue. If you are participating in the course, we will review how to contribute.

11ty theme based on NikitaZanella/11ty-SASS.

Banner photo by Eric Krull on Unsplash.