Site structure

Root folder files

The root folder contains the following files:

• .gitignore: contains filepath patterns to be ignored by git version control
• 404.html: template for the error page shown for invalid paths
• Gemfile, Gemfile.lock: dependency file for Ruby to track and manage project dependencies (Jekyll is written in the Ruby programming language)
• _config.yml: configuration information for the Jekyll
• index.md: the index page, written in markdown

Root folder subdirectories

It also contains the following directories:

• .github/workflows: workflow information for Github Actions
• _includes: Jekyll templates used in generating pages during the build process
• _layouts: Jekyll layouts that can be specified by pages
• _posts: folder for blog posts; currently unused and only contains a default file (which can be removed)
• images: folder for images used in any of the pages
• pages: folder for static pages