Lab Website

NSS lab website at UBC

How to view my fork before pushing to the web?

Review pages with HTML preview using: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UBC-NSS/www/master/html/index.html

You can also open a local webserver: python -m SimpleHTTPServer and go to localhost:8000.
This is also given in deploy-local-website-8000.sh for super ease.

Photos: Main Slider

These are stored in /files/main-photos
The default aspect ratio of the photos is 3:2, only because my camera had that setting.
Add a photo there, and modify the nivoSlider section in index.html to include it in the rotation.

Photos: Headshots

All the original shots are stored in /files/people-photos/unedited
I use gThumb to crop the image into a square, and then save it in the /files/people-photos directory.

Publications: DBLP Query Tool

Just navigate to the /dynamic-dblp directory and call make. This will:

• Query DBLP for papers authored by the 6 faculty members here at NSS, and save results into XML
• Parse each of the XML response files into a combined python object, applying some filters
• Filter out a pub if the title matches exactly in the blacklist file.
• Write the python object into a pub_list.html file
• Copy the file over the the /html directory

TODO: how to incorporate Margo's future pubs easily?

Python dependencies:

• I did everything with python 2.7. TODO: test on python 3.
• pandas