This is a “talk” page in Story, which is the permanent homepage for a talk you’ve given at a specific event. It’s designed to showcase your appearance by bringing together information about the event, along with your slides and extra information like a video of your talk. In this way you can build a portfolio of your speaking history.
Talks are designed to go together with slides. I (Baron, the author of Story) create a talk page for every speaking appearance.
You can reuse slides between talks, so multiple talks pages link to the same slides. You also can feature the cover image from the slides as the talks page’s featured image.
I normally put the speaking proposal / abstract into the body of the talks page’s content, where this text you’re reading right now is stored.
In case you missed that, this page normally wouldn’t have an article. It’d have a talk abstract.
Talks are included in RSS feeds and in the homepage listing of the site, but slides aren’t. This way people find out about your speaking, but they see no duplicate content.
You can create a screenshot of the first slide (title and all) and store it
in the slides directory, and use it as the thumbnail of the talks page. That’s
what I’ve done on this page; its preview image on the talks listing
page is different from the banner at the top of this page.
Front-matter content for a talks page can have quite a few items. Here’s a rundown, assuming YAML front matter:
---
title: "Creating Beautiful Presentations with Story"
date: "Date of the presentation"
event: "name of the event, such as RemarkConf 2018"
location: "<physical address of the event>"
site: "<url to the homepage of the talk, for example the session page on a conference website>"
slides: "<usually /path/to/slides/in/the/slides/section/, but could be any link>"
image: "<usually something like /slides/my-slides/first-slide-background.jpg>"
description: "A description that will appear in social media shares"
thumbnail: "<usually something like /path/to/slides/thumbnail.jpg/>"
video: "a youtube or other video link"
---
Because talks and slides are designed to link so tightly together, their
archetypes (Hugo template files) work in lockstep, so you can create a pair of
talks and slides content items by running the hugo new command once, then
editing it and running again:
$ hugo new talks/my-exciting-talk.md
$ hugo new slides/my-exciting-talk/index.md
If you look at the content that results from those commands, most of the defaults are basically prepopulated for you, such as links between them.
Story supports “future talks,” meaning that you can post a talk with a future date, and it’ll appear only in the right places at the right times. See future talks for more on that.
Read next: Story’s amazing Markdown-based presentation engine.
