pavaniasn.github.io

Personal site. Plain HTML pages, plus a Jekyll collection for the writing section.

Adding a new piece to Mananam

1. Create one new file in _mananam/, named YYYY-MM-DD-short-name.md (the date prefix just keeps the folder in order).

2. Start it with this block, then write the piece underneath in plain text:

---
title: "Your Title Here"
slug: your-title-here
summary: >-
  One or two sentences. This is what shows on the Mananam index page
  and in Google results — so make it inviting, not a summary.
date: 2026-08-15
---

Your first paragraph.

Your second paragraph. Leave a blank line between paragraphs.

Use *asterisks* around book, film, or article titles to italicise them.

3. Commit and push. GitHub rebuilds the site in a minute or two.

That's it — the piece appears at the top of writing.html automatically, and gets its own page at /mananam/your-title-here/. Nothing else needs editing.

The slug becomes the web address, so don't change it after you've shared a link.

Layout of the repo

Path	What it is
_mananam/	One file per piece of writing. This is the only folder you need for new posts.
_layouts/mananam.html	The frame around a single piece — nav, title, footer.
writing.html	The Mananam index. Lists everything in _mananam/ automatically.
style.css	All styling for the whole site.
index.html, research.html, portfolio.html, teaching.html, contact.html, appointments.html	Ordinary HTML pages, edited by hand.
_config.yml	Site settings. Rarely needs touching.

Note: the navigation menu is repeated at the top of each HTML page. If you add or rename a menu item, it has to be changed in each of those files.