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Massimiliano Di Luca

Francine lao

There are several websites associated with the lab.

These sites are created using WOWCHEMY, they code is uploaded on github and the website is finally hosted Netlify:

VRLab (main page):

https://virtualrealitylab.netlify.app⁠

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ARME project:

https://arme-project.co.uk⁠

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AGINT TOUCH project:

https://aging-touch.netlify.app⁠

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ATTS project:

https://adaptivetouchtesting.netlify.app⁠

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This, instead, is the UoB page of the Symonlab created using the UoB CMS:

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/research/labs/symon/index.aspx⁠

Plans:

We would like to create a projects page so to allow evidencing all other websites and resources

We would like to create a blog or news page on the VRLab website

We are hoping to create two more webpages, one for the VR lab and one for BhamXR. For this, a request has been made and we are collecting

To contribute to and modify the WOWCHEMY websites, follow the directions below

To create your page on the WOWCHEMY websites, you can send

@Massimiliano Di Luca⁠

a text file with your information following the text below (don’t change the spacing, tabs and format)

--- title: Your Name Here

authors: - Your Name Here

highlight_name: true role: Your Title Here bio: '1/2 sentences short bio here. It will appear on the pages where you are listed as an author'

organizations: - name: University of Birmingham url: 'https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/psychology/diluca-massimiliano.aspx'

interests: - ...

- ...

education: courses: - course: PhD in ... institution: ... year: 2006 - course: ... institution: ... year: ...

social: - icon: link icon_pack: fas link: https://massimilianodiluca.info - icon: google-scholar icon_pack: ai link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=93hi3QcAAAAJ&hl=en - icon: publons icon_pack: ai link: https://publons.com/researcher/1170808/massimiliano-di-luca/ - icon: twitter icon_pack: fab link: https://twitter.com/maxdiluca - icon: tree icon_pack: fas link: https://neurotree.org/neurotree/peopleinfo.php?pid=6562 - icon: youtube icon_pack: fab link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRBLD3PiUPlzAmKsL7gicIvci2lRXoZah - icon: linkedin icon_pack: fab link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxdiluca/ - icon: researchgate icon_pack: fab link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Massimiliano-Di-Luca - icon: orcid icon_pack: fab link: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3085-7251 - icon: github icon_pack: fab link: https://github.com/maxdiluca email: "if you want your email to be listed, add it here otherwise leave this empty"

superuser: true

user_groups: - Principal Investigator / Research assistants / Visitors / Researchers / Students --- This is the space to write your full bio. It will appear on your personal page.

Instructions for changes to the websites

There are currently four WOWCHEMY- based websites:

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https://arme-project.netlify.app⁠

with the domain

https://arme-project.co.uk⁠

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https://aging-touch.netlify.app⁠

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https://adaptivetouchtesting.netlify.app⁠

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https://virtualrealitylab.netlify.app⁠

The code is hosted on GitHub and the website is hosted on Netlify.

I also have my personal websites also built using Hugo, so if you want to look at the code, please do so

https://github.com/maxdiluca/massimilianodiluca⁠

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Create a new website

If you want to create a free website like these three, go to

https://wowchemy.com⁠

, hit “Get started”, select a template and press “start with... →”. Please create an account on Github or connect with your current one, and give a name to the repository. You will then need to create a free account on Netlify. You will receive two emails, one with the SSH key to the GitHub repository, and the other with the invitation to the Netlify project.

More information on how to create content for the website (which is a HUGO template created with Wowchemy and published with Netlify) can be found here

https://wowchemy.com/docs/⁠

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The rest of the guide will be based on the ARME project, but it works in the same way for the other two and for any other Wowchemy website.

First-time setup for making changes to a website

To start working (e.g., add and modify content), you will need a GitHub account, to be added as a ‘contributor’ to the GitHub repository and the GitHub desktop.

To create an account, go here:

https://github.com/join⁠

Download the GitHub desktop app here:

https://desktop.github.com⁠

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Give your account ID to

@Massimiliano Di Luca⁠

or to another owner of the GitHub repository specifying which website you want to contribute to. Once one of the owners has set you up as a ‘contributor’, you can modify the content on GitHub where the code of the website resides (e.g.

https://github.com/maxdiluca/ARME⁠

To make changes (e.g. adding an entry in the ‘News’), you will need the GitHub Desktop app. For this, the first time you contribute, on the Github repository page (e.g.,

https://github.com/maxdiluca/ARME⁠

) click the “CODE” button and select “Open with GitHub Desktop”. You will now have a local copy of the code on the Github repository.

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Making changes

The GitHub repository does not have HTML code, so you will need to change one of the files in the “content” folder, upload the file on GitHub (”Push”), and Netlify will automatically build the HTML site. You will need a few minutes before seeing any change.

You will need to open a few things:

the GitHub desktop app,

your computer file manager,

a text editor, and

two web pages :

GitHub repository webpage:

https://github.com/maxdiluca/ARME⁠

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Live website:

https://arme-project.co.uk⁠

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These are the steps required to make changes and publish them:

First, always check that the last “built” was successful by seeing that the built state icon is green and says “success” in the GitHub webpage

https://github.com/maxdiluca/ARME⁠

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If the icon is not green, a previous contribution did not build correctly. Go to point 13 to diagnose the problem.

In the desktop app, top left, select the repository you want to work on.

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In the desktop app, “fetch” the repository and “pull” to get the latest files to reside on your computer (top right button).

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In the desktop app, press this button to get to the local repository folder.

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Open the “content” folder on the local copy of the repository.

Add or modify content by working on the folder. For example, the “post” folder holds the news. To create a new entry, duplicate the “template” folder and give the folder another name, change the file index for the text and add pictures in the folder (“featured.jpg” are directly shown without needing to link them)

Once you finish editing files, be sure to change the tag “draft” in the file to “false”.

In the desktop app, “fetch” to check that there are no changes from somebody else (top right button).

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In the desktop app, describe the changes made in the “description” box.

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In the desktop app, select and deselect any files that you want to be updated.

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In the desktop app press “commit” to save the changes you have made

In the desktop app finally “push” the changes on GitHub from your local version (same button top right, has now changed label)

Once the push is finished, refresh the github repository webpage page. The “state” logo on the readme page (with the netlify text) should change from green to yellow and say “building”.

Refresh the github repository and wait until the build process is finished. Check the state logo - if it goes to green and says “success” the website has been updated and it can be seen if you refresh the live website. - if it is red and says “error” then there is an error in the syntax of the file you uploaded or modified. Debug info can be seen by clicking the Netlify “state” logo, which will bring you to the deploy page

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The last deploy is at the top of the list (in the image it has been successful). If you visualize the log, you will see this:

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Scroll down until you see the two red lines. The file containing the error and the type of erro is reported just before them:

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Go to point 4 to make more changes.

Indexing a website on Google

Go here

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https://search.google.com/⁠

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In the “search property” top right box, create a new property and select a URL prefix.

Add the URL of the website.

To verify the ownership, use the “HTML tag” method to “Add a meta tag to your site's home page”

Copy the meta tag.

In Netlify, go in the Settings>Site configuration>Build & Deploy>Post Processing>Snippet injection

Check that no other injections about Google console or google-site-verification properties are present, then “Add Snippet” select “before </head>”, name it google-site-verification and paste the snippet you copied.

In Netlify, go on “Deploys” and press “Trigger deploy” selecting “Clear cache and deploy site”.

Once the deploy is finished, go back on google and verify the property.

In Netlify, go in Integration, search sitemap and enable the “Sitemap” and then “install”. Also enable “Send sitemap to Google” and Install.

In Netlify, go on “Deploys” and press “Trigger deploy” selecting “Clear cache and deploy site”.

In Google, check that the sitemap is indexed and readable. Add one if it is not transferred automatically.

Verify your site by adding the search engine’s verification code to your params.yaml:

marketing:

verification:

google: ''

baidu: ''

bing: ''

Changes to UoB website pages

use this form

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https://servicenow.bham.ac.uk/ext_web_req?id=sc_category&catalog_id=f7ffd47e4dfd4abca1adba22d177c631&sys_id=25cebfc8699e4119a3ed6c582dd5cd8a⁠

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Instructions for changes to the websites

Create a new website

First-time setup for making changes to a website

Making changes

Indexing a website on Google

Changes to UoB website pages

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