Context
This tutorial assumes you’ve written a Markown document that you’d like to formally add to website. You can brush up on your Markdown here.
Posting a Markdown document this way will give it a title & direct link in the Footer, no other location.
We’ll be putting the document in one of the Footer Categories: About Us, Library Guides, Olin Workshop on the Library and Policies & Practices Each of these Footer Categories has its own folder. Save your document to the appropriate folder.
When titling your documents, try to the current naming convention, which is The_Document_Title.md
Creation
Open your preferred code editor (folks around here seem to lean toward Atom, but there’s a Sublime Text contingent too.)
Now, from the editor open footer.html
footer.html is found in _includes > footer.html
It gets a little less pretty here. Your file should look something like this, disregarding the colors.
Reading more closely, you’ll see the Footer Categories inside the <article> tags. These are About Us, Library Guides, Olin Workshop on the Library and Policies & Practices
<article class="...">
<h4 class="...">Policies & Practices</h4>
Then, duplicate one of the <li>…</li>’s in that category and paste it beneath the last one.
<li class="...">
<a class="..." href="../policies_practices/event_policy" title="event policy">Event Policy</a>
</li>
Now edit the href=”…“ to the correct file path to the folder where you saved your document
<li class="...">
<a class="..." href="../FOOTER_CATEGORY_FOLDER/FILENAME(without.md)" title="DESCRIPTION">DOCUMENT_TITLE</a>
</li>
Hit save. Hold your breath. Refresh the website. Exhale.