2.1 - Awards, Publications, Stats, Portfolio page improvements and more

New features, functionality

• New draft mode for sandbox posts
• Handouts now included as embedded PDFs for improved accessibility
• Key stats held in .yml file in _data
• Search page redesign - now allows search and includes giant list of content
• Support for listing publications and presentations on portfolio pages
• Improved support for listing awards and honors on portfolio and other pages
• Dublin core metadata / Zotero support
• change from author names to display names and usernames for WI+RE team members, incorporate into layouts
• improvements to team-member layout

New content

• Study tips
• Contacting Instructors
• Entering research workshops
• Finding books in the UCLA Catalog and Melvyl Catalog
• The Making of Wheel of Sources
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Engineering research support post
• Undergraduate Research Portal videos
• Poster series sandbox post

Designer profiles, sandbox integration, thumbnails, and bootstrap

In this update we focus on celebrating creativity and community by adding designer profiles and portfolios, providing extended attribution for the authors and contributors to the site, and taking a more visual approach to the overall user interface.

We also add content types for workshops and handouts, adding to tutorials and embeds from our first release.

Enjoy!