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CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to al-folio
+Thank you for considering to contribute to al-folio!
+
+
+## Pull Requests
+We welcome your pull requests (PRs).
+For minor fixes (e.g., documentation improvements), feel free to submit a PR directly.
+If you would like to implement a new feature or a bug, please make sure you (or someone else) has opened an appropriate issue first; in your PR, please mention the issue it addresses.
+
+
+## Issues
+We use GitHub issues to track bugs and feature requests.
+Before submitting an issue, please make sure:
+
+1. You have read [the FAQ section](https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio#faq) of the README and your question is NOT addressed there.
+2. You have done your best to ensure that your issue is NOT a duplicate of one of [the previous issues](https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio/issues).
+3. Your issue is either a bug (unexpected/undesirable behavior) or a feature request.
+If it is just a question, please ask it on [gitter](https://gitter.im/alshedivat/al-folio).
+
+When submitting an issue, please make sure to use the appropriate template.
+
+
+## License
+By contributing to al-folio, you agree that your contributions will be licensed
+under the LICENSE file in the root directory of the source tree.

LICENSE

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 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2018 Maruan Al-Shedivat.
+Copyright (c) 2020 Maruan Al-Shedivat.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
 this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in

README.md

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 [![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/mashape/apistatus.svg?maxAge=2592000)](https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio/blob/master/LICENSE)
 [![gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/alshedivat/al-folio.svg)](https://gitter.im/alshedivat/al-folio?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
 
-A simple and clean [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) theme for academics.
+A simple, clean, and responsive [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) theme for academics.
 
-[![Screenshot](assets/img/full-screenshot.png)](https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/)
+[![Preview](assets/img/al-folio-preview.png)](https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/)
 
-Originally, **al-folio** was based on the [\*folio theme](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) (published by [Lia Bogoev](http://liabogoev.com) and under the MIT license).
-Since then, it got a full re-write of the styles and many additional cool features.
-The emphasis is on whitespace, transparency, and academic usage: [theme demo](https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/).
 
 ## Getting started
 
 For more about how to use Jekyll, check out [this tutorial](https://www.taniarascia.com/make-a-static-website-with-jekyll/).
 Why Jekyll? Read this [blog post](https://karpathy.github.io/2014/07/01/switching-to-jekyll/)!
 
+
 ### Installation
 
-Assuming you have [Ruby](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/) and [Bundler](https://bundler.io/) installed on your system (*hint: for ease of managing ruby gems, consider using [rbenv](https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv)*), first fork the theme from `github.com:alshedivat/al-folio` to `github.com:<your-username>/<your-repo-name>` and do the following:
+Assuming you have [Ruby](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/) and [Bundler](https://bundler.io/) installed on your system (*hint: for ease of managing ruby gems, consider using [rbenv](https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv)*), first [fork](https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/) the theme from `github.com:alshedivat/al-folio` to `github.com:<your-username>/<your-repo-name>` and do the following:
 
 ```bash
 $ git clone git@github.com:<your-username>/<your-repo-name>.git
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 **Note:** when deploying your user or organization page, make sure the `_config.yml` has `url` and `baseurl` fields as follows.
 
 ```
-url: # should be empty
+url:  # should be empty
 baseurl:  # should be empty
 ```
 
-### Usage
 
-Note that `_pages/about.md` is built to index.html in the published site. There is therefore no need to have a separate index page for the project. If an index page does exist in the root directory then this will prevent `_pages/about.md` from being added to the built site.
+### Upgrading from a previous version
+
+If you installed **al-folio** as described above, you can upgrade to the latest version as follows:
+
+```bash
+# Assuming the current directory is <your-repo-name>
+$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio.git
+$ git fetch upstream
+$ git rebase upstream/v0.3
+```
+
+If you have extensively customized a previous version, it might be trickier to upgrade.
+You can still follow the steps above, but `git rebase` may result in merge conflicts that must be resolved.
+See [git rebase manual](https://help.github.com/en/github/using-git/about-git-rebase) and how to [resolve conflicts](https://help.github.com/en/github/using-git/resolving-merge-conflicts-after-a-git-rebase) for more information.
+If rebasing is too complicated, we recommend to re-install the new version of the theme from scratch and port over your content and changes from the previous version manually.
+
 
 ## Features
 
-#### Ergonomic Publications
+### Publications
 
 Your publications page is generated automatically from your BibTex bibliography.
 Simply edit `_bibliography/papers.bib`.
 You can also add new `*.bib` files and customize the look of your publications however you like by editing `_pages/publications.md`.
 
 Keep meta-information about your co-authors in `_data/coauthors.yml` and Jekyll will insert links to their webpages automatically.
 
-#### Collections
-This Jekyll theme implements collections to let you break up your work into categories.
-The example is divided into news and projects, but easily revamp this into apps, short stories, courses, or whatever your creative work is.
+<p align="center"><img src="assets/img/publications-screenshot.png" width=800></p>
 
-> To do this, edit the collections in the `_config.yml` file, create a corresponding folder, and create a landing page for your collection, similar to `_pages/projects.md`.
 
-Two different layouts are included: the blog layout, for a list of detailed descriptive list of entries, and the projects layout.
-The projects layout overlays a descriptive hoverover on a background image.
-If no image is provided, the square is auto-filled with the chosen theme color.
-Thumbnail sizing is not necessary, as the grid crops images perfectly.
+### Collections
 
-#### Theming
-Six beautiful theme colors have been selected to choose from.
-The default is purple, but quickly change it by editing `$theme-color` variable in the `_sass/variables.scss` file (line 72).
-Other color variables are listed there, as well.
+This Jekyll theme implements `collections` to let you break up your work into categories.
+The theme comes with two default collections: `news` and `projects`.
+Items from the `news` collection are automatically displayed on the home page.
+Items from the `projects` collection are displayed on a responsive grid on projects page.
+
+<p align="center"><img src="assets/img/projects-screenshot.png" width=700></p>
+
+You can easily create your own collections, apps, short stories, courses, or whatever your creative work is.
+To do this, edit the collections in the `_config.yml` file, create a corresponding folder, and create a landing page for your collection, similar to `_pages/projects.md`.
+
+
+### Layouts
+
+**al-folio** comes with stylish layouts for pages and blog posts.
+
+#### The iconic style of Distill
+
+The theme allows you to create blog posts in the [distill.pub](https://distill.pub/) style:
+
+<p align="center"><a href="https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/blog/2018/distill/" target="_blank"><img src="assets/img/distill-screenshot.png" width=700></a></p>
+
+For more details on how to create distill-styled posts using `<d-*>` tags, please refer to [the example](https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/blog/2018/distill/).
+
+#### Full support for math & code
+
+**al-folio** supports fast math typesetting through [KaTeX](https://katex.org/) and code syntax highlighting using [GitHub style](https://github.com/jwarby/jekyll-pygments-themes):
+
+<p align="center">
+<a href="https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/blog/2015/math/" target="_blank"><img src="assets/img/math-screenshot.png" width=450></a>
+<a href="https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/blog/2015/code/" target="_blank"><img src="assets/img/code-screenshot.png" width=450></a>
+</p>
 
 #### Photos
-Photo formatting is made simple using rows of a 3-column system.
-Make photos 1/3, 2/3, or full width.
-Easily create beautiful grids within your blog posts and projects pages:
+
+Photo formatting is made simple using [Bootstrap's grid system](https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.4/layout/grid/).
+Easily create beautiful grids within your blog posts and project pages:
 
 <p align="center">
   <a href="https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/projects/1_project/">
     <img src="assets/img/photos-screenshot.png" width="75%">
   </a>
 </p>
 
-#### Code Highlighting
-This theme implements Jekyll's built in code syntax highlighting with Pygments.
-Just use the liquid tags `{% highlight python %}` and `{% endhighlight %}` to delineate your code:
 
-<p align="center">
-  <a href="https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/blog/2015/code/">
-    <img src="assets/img/code-screenshot.png" width="75%">
-  </a>
-</p>
+### Other features
+
+#### Theming
+Six beautiful theme colors have been selected to choose from.
+The default is purple, but you can quickly change it by editing `$theme-color` variable in the `_sass/variables.scss` file.
+Other color variables are listed there as well.
 
 #### Social media previews
-The al-folio theme optionally supports preview images on social media.
-To enable this functionality you will need to set `serve_og_meta` to `true` in
-your `_config.yml`. Once you have done so, all your site's pages will include
-Open Graph data in the HTML head element.
-
-You will then need to configure what image to display in your site's social
-media previews. This can be configured on a per-page basis, by setting the
-`og_image` page variable. If for an individual page this variable is not set,
-then the theme will fall back to a site-wide `og_image` variable, configurable
-in your `_config.yml`. In both the page-specific and site-wide cases, the
-`og_image` variable needs to hold the URL for the image you wish to display in
-social media previews.
+**al-folio** supports preview images on social media.
+To enable this functionality you will need to set `serve_og_meta` to `true` in your `_config.yml`.
+Once you have done so, all your site's pages will include Open Graph data in the HTML head element.
+
+You will then need to configure what image to display in your site's social media previews.
+This can be configured on a per-page basis, by setting the `og_image` page variable.
+If for an individual page this variable is not set, then the theme will fall back to a site-wide `og_image` variable, configurable in your `_config.yml`.
+In both the page-specific and site-wide cases, the `og_image` variable needs to hold the URL for the image you wish to display in social media previews.
+
 
 ## Contributing
 
-Feel free to contribute new features and theme improvements by sending a pull request.
-Style improvements and bug fixes are especially welcome.
+Contributions to al-folio are very welcome!
+Before you get started, please take a look at [the guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+If you would like to improve documentation, add your webpage to the list below, or fix a minor inconsistency or bug, please feel free to send a PR directly to `master`.
+For more complex issues/bugs or feature requests, please open an issue using the appropriate template.
+
+
+## Users of al-folio
+
+The community of **al-folio** users is growing!
+Academics around the world use this theme for their homepages, blogs, lab pages, as well as webpages for courses, workshops, conferences, meetups, and more.
+Check out the community webpages below.
+Feel free to add your own page(s) by sending a PR.
+
+<table>
+<tr>
+<td>Academics</td>
+<td>
+<a href="http://maruan.alshedivat.com" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://maithraraghu.com" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="http://platanois.org" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://otiliastr.github.io" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/~sxwc62/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="http://jessachandler.com/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://mayankm96.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://markdean.info/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://kakodkar.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://sahirbhatnagar.com/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://spd.gr/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://jay-sarkar.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://aborowska.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://aditisgh.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://alexhaydock.co.uk/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://alixkeener.net/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://andreea7b.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://rishabhjoshi.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://sheelabhadra.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://giograno.me/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://immsrini.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://apooladian.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://chinmoy-dutta.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Labs</td>
+<td>
+<a href="https://www.haylab.caltech.edu/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://sjkimlab.github.io/" target="_blank">★</a>
+<a href="https://systemconsultantgroup.github.io/scg-folio/" target="_blank">★</a>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Courses</td>
+<td>
+<a href="https://sailinglab.github.io/pgm-spring-2019/" target="_blank">CMU PGM 2019</a>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Conferences/workshops</td>
+<td>
+ML Retrospectives (<a href="https://ml-retrospectives.github.io/neurips2019/" target="_blank">NeurIPS 2019</a>, <a href="https://ml-retrospectives.github.io/icml2020/" target="_blank">ICML 2020</a>)
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+## FAQ
+
+Here are some frequently asked questions.
+If you have a different question, please ask on [gitter](https://gitter.im/alshedivat/al-folio).
+
+1. **Q:** When I preview my website locally everything looks great, but when I deploy it on GitHub bibliography Liquid tags are not recognized.
+   How do I fix this? <br>
+   **A:** GitHub Pages rendering does not support certain Jekyll plugins, and `jekyll-scholar` that we use to render bibliography is one of them. Please make sure you deploy your website to GitHub using `bin/deploy` script that circumvents the issue.
+
+2. **Q:** When I deploy my fork of al-folio, it says `Deployed successfully!`
+   But when I open `<my-github-username>.github.io`, I get `Page not found (404)` error.
+   How do I fix this? <br>
+   **A:** For personal webpages, please run `bin/deploy --user`.
+   (See also relevant past issues: [#5](https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio/issues/5), [#49](https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio/issues/49), [#86](https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio/issues/86).)
+
 
 ## License
 
 The theme is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
+
+Originally, **al-folio** was based on the [\*folio theme](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) (published by [Lia Bogoev](http://liabogoev.com) and under the MIT license).
+Since then, it got a full re-write of the styles and many additional cool features.

_sass/_layout.scss

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  body {
    padding-bottom: 70px;
+   color: $text-color;
  }
 
  body.fixed-top-nav {

_sass/_variables.scss

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 $theme-color:         $purple-color;
 
 $link-color:          $theme-color;
-$text-color:          #111111 !default;
+$text-color:          #111 !default;