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Update homepage event
Jeremy Zilar edited this page Mar 4, 2019
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To update the event displayed on the homepage, edit the data file located at _data/events.yml
.
The format for events is:
- title: Q&A with Dr. Annetta Cheek
date: 2017-11-08
link: https://digital.gov/event/2019/03/13/managing-your-plain-language-career/
description: >-
Meet Annetta L. Cheek, PhD, chair and cofounder of the Center for Plain Language, and recent
winner of the Christine Mowat Award for her tireless work promoting plain language.
Learn about PLAIN’s history, her career in the federal government, her work lobbying for the Plain Writing Act
of 2010, and where she thinks plain language is going.
[Register for the March 13 meeting »](https://digital.gov/event/2019/03/13/managing-your-plain-language-career/)
To ensure that events get formatted correctly, you need to do the following:
- follow the
YYYY-MM-DD
format for thedate
field, as it is automatically converted to a more human readable format when displayed on the homepage:November 8, 2017
. - ensure that there's a line break after
description: >-
(see example above) - put four spaces in front of each new paragraph of description text (see example above)
- Verify that links in the description are formatted like:
[text to link](url-goes-here)
(see example above)