This tutorial will show you how to edit the content of this website under Microsoft Windows.
Step 1: Authentification
You first need to make you recognized by the system: authentication is based on a private key, which must stay "hidden" on your computer, and on a public key, which you may give to others.
In order to generate these keys, you must download and install the "Putty" software and follow this tutorial:
IMPORTANT: in the above tutorial, stop just before step E: you are not going to use app.cloudforge.com at all, but rather gitlab.inria.fr. Once you have done sted D, then proceeds to "Step 2: gitlab account"
Step 2: Gitlab account
Point your browser to this server:
and click on "register" to create a new account. When your account is created, you go to your settings close to your profile menu, and look on the left for the menu SSH Keys. There, you can "add" the public SSH key that you have created on step 1: just copy-paste your public key in an editable text box on the right give it a Title and click Add key.
You are now recognized by gitlab.inria: let me (Christophe Cerisara) know of your login name, and I will add you as an editor of the website.
Step 3: Install Tortoise Git
In order to "download" (or pull in the GIT terminology) the source of the website onto your computer, and later on "upload" (or commit and push) your modifications into the server, you will use the Tortoise GIT software.
Just go to https://tortoisegit.org/ and follows the instructions to install tortoise git.
Once this is done, you should let tortoise GIT know about your SSH keys: just jump back at the end of the tutorial in Step 1, and complete the process under the section Using SSH keys with TortoiseGit client
You are all setup to start editing the website !
Step 4: Get an initial copy of the website source code
You must first download the complete source code of the website: you must do this operation only once ! Because later on you will just update your local copy of the website to include the other people updates via a "git pull" operation, without downloading again the whole site structure.
This is done via a "git clone" operation within tortoise GIT, where you should give the server url:
git+ssh://git@gitlab.inria.fr:cerisara/olkisite.gitYou may want to read a bit some documentation about tortoise git to get familiar with this software.
Step 5: Edit your local copy of the website
You should now see in your computer directory, the website repositories: look for the directory content, which contains the textual content of the web pages.
- In the directory content/portfolio, you'll find a list of files, each file correspond to one of the "latest works" pages that appears on the front page of the site. If you want to add a new work, just copy one of these files, edit the newly copied file and save it. Edition of a page must be done with a simple text editor: I recommend "Word Pad" (and not Microsoft Word, which is not done to edit pure text files). Open the file with WordPad, and just look: the structure of the file should be quite straightfoward, with a header on top that contains some metadata (date of publication, image to be shown, title...) followed by a textual description. You can see that title lines are preceded by ###, otherwise, it's just plain text. If you want to learn more about how to do some special formatting within these text files, just search on the internet for "Markdown tutorial", and you will get all explanations and details about this edition format.
- In the directory content/blog, you'll find a list of files that correspond to the blog posts
When you add a new file, you should let GIT know that this new file should be included in the site: you must then perform the git add operation on this file (see tortoise git documentation).
Step 6: Commit your modifications onto the server
When you are done editing the site, you must perform the git commit and git push operations to send your modifications onto the server. If no error is shown, then the files have been correctly sent to the server. If an error occurs, it is likely to be because of a conflict, i.e., someone else has modified the site before you: you must then do a git pull operation to get your local copy up-to-date, and then again try the commit and push operations. It may happen (but rarely) that the git pull also fails, which is because you have edited the very same file than someone else; the just let me know, and I'll show you how to solve such conflicts.
But in most cases, everything should go well and after a few minutes, the new version of the website should be automatically visible.