Project Notes

Overview

Personal academic website for Bijoy Ratan Ghosh (PhD Economics, UVA) built with Jekyll using the Minimal Light theme (yaoyao-liu/minimal-light). Hosted on GitHub Pages.

Two repos:

• Main site: bijoyratanghosh/bijoyratanghosh.github.io — profile, research, teaching, beyond research
• Curriculum: bijoyratanghosh/empirical-macro-curriculum — Quarto book, served from docs/ folder. Must run quarto render in that repo after config/content changes for docs/ to update.
• GitHub profile README: bijoyratanghosh/bijoyratanghosh — profile landing page on GitHub

Architecture

• All pages use layout: homepage (not page). Both layout files exist but only homepage.html is actively used.
• Nav bar is defined via a <style> block + <nav class="site-nav"> in both _layouts/homepage.html and _layouts/page.html. Any nav changes must be made in both files to stay consistent.
• Theme CSS comes from remote theme. Local overrides in _sass/minimal-light-no-dark-mode.scss. Key theme colors:
  • Headings: #043361 (dark navy)
  • Links: #39c
  • Muted text: #595959
  • Nav bar: white background, #043361 text, #39c hover
• Copyright: All Rights Reserved. Footer in both layouts, LICENSE files in both repos.
• SEO: JSON-LD structured data in both layouts, Open Graph + Twitter cards on curriculum site, sitemap + robots.txt on main site.

Current nav tabs

Home | Research | Teaching | Beyond Research

Pages

• index.md — About, research interests, contact
• research.md — Includes _includes/publications.md
• teaching.md — TA experience at UVA and IGIDR
• beyond-research.md — Curriculum link + planned projects

Where to pick up next

Blog setup (priority)

• Bijoy wants a blog on the Beyond Research page for essays on monetary history, policy puzzles, empirical craft, etc.
• Jekyll supports this natively via _posts/ directory. Need to:
  • Create _posts/ directory
  • Create a blog listing page (e.g., blog.md) or integrate into beyond-research
  • Add a blog layout or reuse homepage layout
  • Possibly add the blog as its own nav tab or keep it under Beyond Research
  • Consider adding an RSS feed (jekyll-feed plugin)

Beyond Research — planned sections (all marked “Coming soon”)

• Curated Readings in Macro-Finance — annotated reading list, thematic organization
• Computational Macro Cookbook — recipes for solving/estimating macro models (Julia, MATLAB, Python). Could link to existing repos: DSGE_mod, Computational-Macroeconomics, VAR-Toolbox

Other potential improvements

• Update GitHub bio (requires gh auth refresh -h github.com -s user for API access, or do manually at github.com/settings/profile)
• Consider Google Scholar link in sidebar once publications are live
• Curriculum site: could add a robots.txt and better meta descriptions per chapter
• Mobile responsiveness — nav bar may need testing on small screens