# Creating a Conference Website The ACMA has a permanent web presence at Each year's ACMC organisers are responsible for creating their own conference website which is used for communicating submission information, the conference schedule and proceedings. Creating a website doesn't have to be terribly difficult or expensive (as little as 12AUD to just buy a domain name). Here's some options and examples. ## 1. Jekyll and Github Pages. The lowest cost way to do this is to create a website with [Jekyll and Github Pages](https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/creating-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll). The idea is that you write the website content (mostly) in Markdown and use a Jekyll theme to provide a format and layout for most of the pages. This is not terribly hard to figure out and the ACMCA committee members can provide some help getting started. When you create a website this way, the hosting is free (provided by ), but you need to buy a domain name separately. E.g., the ACMC organisers can purchase a domain name for that year's conference (e.g., ). You can also use other static site generators, e.g., Hugo, which will have a similar process. ## 2. MiniConf annd Github Pages In 2020, we hosted the conference website using a system called "MiniConf": (You can still see the website here: ). This is similar to the Jekyll / Github Pages option above, but required a bit more coding (in Python) to get it to work properly. The advantage with miniconf was the ability to display information about each presenter / paper / performance and with a very clear interface: ## 3. Wordpress Using a wordpress account is a good way to spin up a wordpress site quickly (. The minimum cost is about 60AUD for a year of service (this includes a domain name). Using wordpress won't let you make a nice interface for a schedule or individual papers as in the above options, but if you just want to have nicely set up pages quickly, it's a decent optionn. You can run into trouble at the end of this year as it's a bit tricky to export a wordpress site for archive. ## After the conference We'd like to be able to archive old conference websites for posterity. With 1 and 2 above, this is pretty easy (we just move the conference git repository to our ACMA organisation account). Option 3 makes this a bit harder, but still good to remember to do it. We don't suggest that conference organisers pay for a domain name / hosting forever, better to just keep the domain as a temporary address for 1-2 years. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://acma.gitbook.io/acmc-cookbook/conference-website.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.