#Project Pages

What are Project Pages?

Project Pages provides a collaboration tool that is designed to accelerate research activities between different research fields, locations, and environments. Collaborators can quickly create blog posts and presentations to share ideas, intermediate results and research progress with each other.

##How do I set up Project Pages for your own project?

1. Fork this repository
2. Rename the forked repository to your new project name.
3. Update the indicated fields in the _config.yml

##How do I make a new post or presentation to share with others?

Create a new .markdown file in the _post directory with the date and title of the post (title YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.md), and update the yaml frontmatter. For a new blog post, copy and update the yaml frontmatter from the example blog file 2015-01-01-New-Post.markdown. Here is an example for a new blog post.

---
layout:     post
title:      Post Headline
date:       2015-01-01 12:00:00
author:     Materials Innovation
---

To create a new presentation, copy and update the frontmatter from the example slide file 2015-01-01-New-Slide.markdown. Here is an example

---
layout:     slide
title:      Presentation Headline
date:       2015-01-01 12:00:00
author:     Materials Innovation

theme:		blood # default/beige/blood/moon/night/serif/simple/sky/solarized
trans:		default # default/cube/page/concave/zoom/linear/fade/none
---

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