RC Handbook

Welcome to the RC Handbook RC Site Sections RC Position Descriptions Digital Publishing Overview Web Development Overview RC Tech Stack & Software Communication & DH Resources

Production Documentation

Production & Publication Schedules File Management Preparing Files for Copyediting RC Copyediting Guide

Copyediting Instructions & Resources

Guide to Author Comments & Queries

Returning Copyedits & Accepting Changes

Romantic Circles House Style (for copyeditors)

Preparing Word Files for XML Conversion RC Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines

TEI Coding Walkthrough

RC TEI Header

RC TEI Style

XSLT —> TEI to HTML & Corpus Transformations

Digital Publishing Guide

Creating the TOC and Author Pages

Uploading Files (SFTP + File System)

Importing Content to the Drupal CMS

Image and Media Sourcing Guide

Digital Proofing Guide

Publishing & Advertising

Technical Documentation

Drupal Overview

Admin Menus, Nav, & Basic Editing

Drupal Content Logics

Drupal Components

Feeds Importers + Config

Drupal Views

Drupal Assets (UI-based)

Media and Mapping

Drupal Maintenance (UI)

Acquia + Server Guide

LAMP Stack — Drupal's Web Infrastructure

Codebase, Database, Filebase

Acquia Environments — Dev, Stage, Prod + IDE

SSH Keys & Remote Server Access

MySQL Database

Composer — Updating & Maintaining the Site

SSL (Security) Certificate Renewal

Acquia Server Management

RC Git Guide

Installing Git and Cloning Repos

Using Git—An Overview

Jekyll + GitHub Pages Guide

Installing Jekyll + Dependencies

Jekyll Site Logics (Structure)

Jekyll Site Extended Features

Markdown Cheatsheet

Guide to RC's Coding and Markup Languages

Contributor Resources

Revision Checklist for Contributors RC Tagging Options RC House Style

Web Development Overview

In order to continue publishing on the RC site, the Drupal environment must be maintained. This document provides an overview of this process; specific instructions for individual tasks appear in the “Technical Documentation” later in this guide, with links to the technical guides provided throughout this overview.

Drupal

RC is built on an open-source content management system (CMS) called Drupal.

Acquia

The Drupal site is hosted by Acquia.

Jekyll + GitHub Pages

This documentation site is a static site run on Jekyll / GitHub pages.