nmbse-content

NMBSE Workshop — Natural Materials and Biomimetics for Sustainable Engineering

A simple Hugo website for the workshop at Imperial College London, 17 June 2026.

Features

• Lightweight Hugo site — no external themes, no modules, no Sass
• Plain CSS only
• Responsive design
• Ready for GitHub Pages deployment

Local Development

Prerequisites

• Hugo (any recent version, extended or standard)

Run locally

hugo server

Open http://localhost:1313 in your browser.

Build

hugo --minify

Output goes to ./public/.

Deploy to GitHub Pages

Option 1: GitHub Actions (Recommended)

1. Push this repository to GitHub
2. Go to Settings → Pages
3. Under Source, select GitHub Actions
4. The included .github/workflows/hugo.yml workflow will build and deploy automatically on every push to main

Option 2: Manual Deploy

1. Build the site: hugo --minify
2. Push the contents of ./public/ to a gh-pages branch, or configure GitHub Pages to serve from the docs/ folder

Project Structure

.
├── content/
│   ├── _index.md          # Home page content
│   ├── speakers.md        # Speakers page
│   ├── registration.md    # Registration page
│   └── organisers.md      # Organisers page
├── layouts/
│   ├── _default/
│   │   ├── baseof.html    # Base template
│   │   └── single.html    # Single page template
│   ├── partials/
│   │   ├── head.html
│   │   ├── header.html
│   │   └── footer.html
│   └── index.html         # Home page template
├── static/
│   ├── css/style.css      # All styles (plain CSS)
│   └── images/banner.png  # Workshop banner
├── hugo.toml              # Hugo configuration
└── README.md

Licence

Content © 2026 EENG / Imperial College London.