Detailed Change Log: CV-Based Site Refresh

Date: 2026-04-21 Repository: YanWin/YanWin.github.io High-level entry: website-change-overview.md

Request

Update the website with the information from the CV, added profile image, and papers. Clean up template example files while keeping the working paper content and leaving one example entry each for talks and teaching. Remove the portfolio and blog post sections completely. Verify the site visually and check for placement issues before closing the task.

Context Map

Files to Modify

File	Purpose	Planned Change
_config.yml	Site identity, sidebar author info, avatar, links	Replace template identity with Yannik Winkelmann profile data
_data/navigation.yml	Top navigation	Remove portfolio and blog links
_pages/about.md	Homepage content	Replace template landing page text with academic bio and research overview
_pages/cv.md	CV page	Replace template sections with CV-based content
_publications/*.md	Publication collection	Replace template papers with CV publications and working papers
_talks/*.md	Talks collection	Remove extra examples and keep one representative entry
_teaching/*.md	Teaching collection	Remove extra examples and keep one representative entry
_pages/portfolio.html	Portfolio section entry point	Remove section from site
_pages/year-archive.html	Blog posts section entry point	Remove section from site
_portfolio/*	Portfolio example content	Remove template examples
_posts/*	Blog post example content	Remove template examples

Reference Inputs

Source	Notes
CV_2026.docx	Source of personal, education, work, publications, working papers, teaching, and skills content
images/csm_Y.Winkelmann_8c28304000_centered.JPG	Newly added portrait image already present in the repository

Risks

_config.yml changes require a Jekyll restart for accurate preview.
Publication card layout needs to remain stable with long titles and without PDF links.
Removing section pages must not leave broken navigation or layout gaps.

Task Steps

Extract CV content and confirm portrait asset.
Replace global site identity and homepage text.
Rewrite the CV page from the provided document.
Replace publication entries with actual papers and working papers.
Clean template example content from talks, teaching, portfolio, and blog posts while preserving one example talk and one example teaching entry.
Run a local preview/build and inspect key pages for visual or placement issues.
Update this log with implementation results and verification notes.

Implementation Plan

Use the existing centered portrait image in the sidebar avatar configuration.
Update author metadata in _config.yml with public contact and profile information from the CV.
Replace the homepage with a concise academic introduction focused on macroeconomics, current Ph.D. work, research interests, and quick links.
Rewrite the CV page into a clean markdown CV with sections for education, publications, working papers, experience, teaching, presentations, service, scholarships, and skills.
Rebuild the publications collection so the public papers and work-in-progress items render in the existing custom publication card layout.
Remove portfolio and blog pages and corresponding template content so those sections disappear completely.
Keep a single talk example and a single teaching example to satisfy the requested cleanup constraint.
Validate the result through a local Jekyll preview and a browser inspection of homepage, publications, talks, teaching, and CV pages.

Progress Updates

Initial context map completed.
CV content extracted from local CV_2026.docx copy.
Portrait image confirmed in repository as images/csm_Y.Winkelmann_8c28304000_centered.JPG.

Final Implementation Results

Site identity, homepage content, markdown CV, JSON-backed CV data, and sidebar profile were updated to Yannik Winkelmann’s material.
Template publication entries were replaced with two published papers and two working papers based on the CV and available PDFs.
Talks and teaching were reduced to one representative entry each, while working paper content was preserved.
Portfolio pages, portfolio items, blog archive entry points, and example blog posts were removed from the active site structure.
Rendering fixes were applied to archive includes so talk and teaching metadata display cleanly without malformed lines or placeholder years.
Local Docker preview was repaired by rebuilding the project container, clearing stale compose state, and updating the compose command to install bundle dependencies before starting Jekyll.

Verification Notes

Direct HTTP verification against http://localhost:4000 confirmed updated Yannik Winkelmann content on the homepage and CV page after the preview container restart.
Key rendered pages checked during preview validation: /, /publications/, /talks/, /teaching/, /cv/, and /cv-json/.
Verified content expectations: homepage biography and research focus, publications and working papers, one talk entry, one teaching entry, and updated CV contact/education/skills sections.
No Liquid or layout errors were reported in the Dockerized Jekyll server logs during the final preview run.
The alternate /cv-json/ page remains an HTML CV rendered from JSON data by design; its navigation button was corrected to point to /cv/.
A stale-content result from an external page-fetch tool did not match the live container output, so final validation relied on direct localhost HTTP responses from the running preview.

Closure

Final preview environment is running through Docker on port 4000.
Source files reflect the requested cleanup and content replacement.
Task log updated with plan, implementation summary, and final verification record.

Handoff

This task is closed at the current repository state and ready for a dedicated commit covering the CV-based site update, template cleanup, and preview fixes.
A separate follow-up task will handle the scrollable homepage with anchored header navigation and active section highlighting.