Prerequisites

In order to edit the website, you need a GitHub account and to be a part of our team's GitHub organization. You can create an account at github.com, and talk to the current Head of Controls to add you to the organization.

What is a Content Page?

A content page is any page on the website that contains static text and images in a freeform manner. This includes all of the /about/ pages, the /contact/ page, and the /members/ pages.

Editing Content Pages

If you have a content page that you'd like to change the information on, add/remove a section, edit the images, or make any other edit to the contents of that content page, it's actually really easy.

Markdown Pages

If the page is a Markdown page (as almost all of the content pages are), you can just edit it as if it were a text document. There's special syntax for specifying headers, links, images, and bulleted/numbered lists. You can learn that syntax quickly with this short Markdown tutorial.

In Markdown pages, you can also embed HTML snippets (i.e. a button) just by typing in HTML.

HTML Pages

A very small number of content pages may be in HTML (i.e. /support-us/sponsor/) because of more intensive visual elements present on the page. On these pages, you can still edit text and images like a text document, but you must make sure to use the proper HTML tags. The W3Schools HTML tutorial is a great resource to learn the basics if you haven't used HTML in the past.