How to Add a Project

Projects get their own detail pages with image galleries and appear in the comprehensive index at /all/.

Step 1: Open the Admin Panel

Go to /admin/ and log in. Click + New Entry in the top-right corner. A new blank row appears in the table.

Step 2: Fill In the Details

Click Edit on the new row to open the side panel. Fill in:

Field	Required	Notes
Title	✅	Main project name
Type	✅	Set to project
Date	✅	Project completion date
Subtitle	—	Brief tagline shown below the title
Year	—	Display year instead of full date
Description	—	Short summary shown in the index
Categories	—	Topic tags — use existing ones when possible
Collaborators	—	Name + role pairs for project partners
Status	—	Built / In Progress / Proposed
Location	—	Geographic location
Body Text	—	Full project description (supports markdown)

Click Apply Changes when done.

Step 3: Save

Click Save Changes (top right). All pending changes are committed to GitHub in a single operation. The site rebuilds automatically in 3–5 minutes.

After saving, the project appears at /project/{slug}/ and in the index at /all/.

Step 4: Add Images

Images are added directly to the GitHub repository in the project's folder. You can do this through the GitHub web interface:

Go to github.com/lowdo-bay/lowdo-dot-net
Navigate to entries/projects/{your-project-slug}/
Click Add file → Upload files
Upload your images and commit

Naming conventions:

Name	Purpose
`header.jpg` or `thumb.jpg`	Main thumbnail shown in index and top of project page
`00_description.jpg`, `01_description.jpg`, …	Gallery images (numbered for sort order)
`drawing-plan.jpg`	Floor plans and architectural drawings

See Image Guide for sizes and formats.

Tips

Categories — Use existing categories when possible to keep filters organized. See Category Guidelines.

Slug — The slug is auto-generated from the title and date (e.g. 260410_casa-marianella). It becomes the URL and the folder name on GitHub. You can't easily change it later without breaking links.

Related awards and press — To show an award or feature on a project's page, link it from the award/news entry using the relatedProjects field. See Adding News & Awards.

Draft — New entries default to published. Toggle the draft dot in the table row to hide an entry while you work on it.

Troubleshooting

"My project doesn't appear in the index"

Check that the draft toggle is grey (published), not red (draft)
Wait 3–5 minutes for the site to rebuild after saving

"The wrong image shows up as thumbnail"

Make sure you have exactly one file named header.jpg or thumb.jpg

"My categories don't appear in filters"

Categories update after the next site rebuild (3–5 min after saving)

See Common Issues for more help.

Advanced: How it works under the hood
When you save in the admin panel, it writes a markdown file to entries/projects/{slug}/{slug}.md on GitHub with your content in frontmatter format. The build system (Eleventy) discovers the file automatically and generates the project page and index entry. You can edit these files directly on GitHub if you need to make changes the admin panel doesn't support — see Frontmatter Reference for the full field list.