/women-of-venus

A collection of biographies of women who have craters named after them on the planet Venus

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Women of Venus

This project is a collection of biographies of women who have craters named after them on the planet Venus. Each woman's biography contains a hand-drawn picture, a short description of that woman's accomplishments, and a set of tags. Women can be viewed alphabetically, by tag, or at random.

Getting Started

  1. You will need npm installed. You can follow the instructions here to do that.
  2. Clone this repo and run npm install to install all the dependencies for the project.
  3. Run npm run develop to view the project locally (at localhost:8000)

Project Structure

This is a React project that uses Gatsby.js to statically generate the site. There are 3 main folders for the project: content, src, and static. Content contains the website content, src contains the code to generate the website, and static contains fonts and the favicon.

content folder

The content folder contains the data for the website. There are two folders: assets and blog.

  • content/assets contains the favicon and images used in React components
  • content/blog contains a series of folders. Each folder contains information for the profile page for a single woman. The folders are named by the last name of the woman. Each folder contains exactly two files: index.md and an image file (the profile picture).
    • index.md is a Markdown file that contains all the relevant information about a woman. The frontmatter of this file includes the title of the page (the woman's full name), "face" or the path to the image associated with that woman, index, description (a short quip about the woman), and a list of tags.
    • <last-name>.png is a hand-drawn portrait of the woman.

src folder

The src folder contains the code that makes the website. There are five folders: components, pages, styles, templates, and utils.

  • src/components contains reusable React components
  • src/pages contains static pages (like the landing page, the about page, and the 404 page)
  • src/templates contains templates for pages that are dynamically generated based on data from the content folder
  • src/styles contains the global css file for the project
  • src/utils contains the definition of the styles for typography.js

Data

Data for this project was taken from the Venus Crater Database maintained by URSA's Lunar and Planetary Institute. We use only the subset of craters that were named after historic people. The rest of the craters were named after common, traditionally feminine, first names.

Dependencies

This project uses Gatsby.js.