📘
Lab Website Template docs
  • Introduction
    • Overview
    • Is this right for me?
    • Gallery
    • Support
  • Getting Started
    • Set up your site
    • Set up your URL
    • Tidy up your repo
    • Change your site
    • Preview your site
  • Basics
    • Repo structure
    • Configure your site
    • Edit pages
    • Write basic content
    • Use your logo
    • Customize your theme
    • Team members
    • Blog posts
    • Citations
    • Components
      • Section
      • Figure
      • Button
      • Icon
      • Feature
      • List
      • Citation
      • Card
      • Portrait
      • Post Excerpt
      • Alert
      • Tags
      • Float
      • Grid
      • Cols
      • Search
      • Site Search
  • Advanced
    • Update your template
    • Embeds
    • Math, diagrams, videos, etc.
    • Analytics
    • Data and collections
    • Jekyll plugins
    • Custom components
    • Background knowledge
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  1. Introduction

Overview

NextIs this right for me?

Last updated 2 months ago

Lab Website Template (LWT) is an easy-to-use, flexible website template for labs. Spend less time worrying about managing a website and citations, and more time running your lab.

This documentation always reflects the ✨ LATEST VERSION of the template.

Coming from a pre-release version of the template? See how to upgrade here.

Key Features

  • 🤖 Based on Git, GitHub, and Jekyll.

  • 📜 Automatically generated citations from simple identifiers (DOI, PubMed, ORCID, and many more) using Manubot. E.g. doi:1234/5678 -> title, authors, publisher, date, etc.

  • 🧱 A comprehensive and flexible suite of pre-made components (building blocks) for structuring and styling your website:

    • Formatted tables, code blocks, figures, and other basic elements.

    • Citations with thumbnails and other rich details.

    • List large sets of data with flexible filters and components.

    • ...many more

  • 👁️ Automatic pull request previews.

  • ⚙️ Easy and automated configuration.

  • 👥 Team member pages with bios, roles, and social media links.

  • 🖋️ Blog posts with tags and rich content.

  • 📱 Works and looks good on desktop and mobile.

  • 🤝 Great documentation and support (if we do say so ourselves).

  • ... and much more!

LogoGitHub - greenelab/lab-website-template: (Pre-release) An easy-to-use, flexible website template for labs, with automatic citations, GitHub tag imports, pre-built components, and moreGitHub