| layout | title | description | isNew | sidebarType |
|---|---|---|---|---|
page_v2 |
prebid.org website guide |
details about how the site works |
false |
0 |
v 1.1
Sept 7, 2019
The Prebid website is developed using Jekyll, a static site generator which uses the following technology to create and style HTML pages.
Markdown: The majority of the content is written in Markdown language. Jekyll transform this into raw HTML.
Learn more about Markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/)
Bootstrap: A CSS template for responsive site design. Bootstrap provides the base formatting for the site.
Learn more about Bootstrap
Liquid: A language created by Shopify to enable dynamic HTML creation.
Learn more about Liquid
Javascript: A combination of Javascript libraries are utilized for the Prebid site to include JQuery and BootstrapJS as well as custom code.
CSS: The site builds on the base Bootstrap template with custom CSS stored in the style.css file.
The _config.yml file (note underscore prefix) sets the base configuration for the site. Refer to Jekyll documentation on which properties can be set in the _congig.yml file.
Jekyll requires adherence to a certain directory structure to generate the site. Directories prefixed with an underscore contain files used to construct the html files of the site.
For the Prebid.org site the following directories are used:
_data
Jekyll was originally designed specifically for creation of blogging websites and not for dynamic, data-driven sites. However, by including the _data directory we can mimic a database structure to create a more robust site. Files in this directory can be saved in either json, yml or csv format. For Prebid.org they have been saved in yml.
Learn more about YML here
There are several YML files in the Prebid _data directory
The contents of these files are used throughout the Prebid.org site for dynamically creating the navigation and displaying messages. See the Data Model section for a review of how the data is structured and to see sample code.
_layouts
The layout directory contains HTML files that, in conjunction with CSS and JS files, format the layout of pages throughout the site.
_includes
The includes directory contains HTML files that can be included within files, such as a file for the header and footer.
_posts
The posts directory contains the files that make up the content of the blog section of the site. Unlike the layouts and includes directories, the posts files are written in Markdown. A blog.html file in the layout directory provides the formatting for these Markdown files.
_bidders
The bidders directory is not a standard part of Jekyll; it’s a special use directory specifically for the Prebid.org site. The files in this directory are used to construct the table of partners on the partners/partners.html page.
_sites
The sites directory is created by Jekyll. It contains the live site generated from the collected files and data listed above, combined with the CSS, JS and image assets and the Markdown files for individual pages.
The assets directory contains the CSS, Javascript, images and other assets used to create the site.
The base CSS file used is Bootstrap (version 3.7.1) Custom CSS and modifications to Bootstrap classes are contained in the style.css file.
The JS directory contains the Javascript files required for the Prebid.org site. It includes JQuery and Bootstrap javascript frameworks as well as other third party libraries and custom javascript written specifically for the Prebid site. For JQuery and Bootstrap both the expanded and minified versions of the javascript files are included but only the minified files are linked from the site header.
- Styles all come from /assets/css/main-bundle.css
- These are generated from /_assets/sass
- To make a change, edit the relevant sass file
- Generate the css file from sass with 'npm run dev/prod'
- Commit all the changes including assets/css/main-bundle.css
- the _assets directory is not part of the _site tree
The data files are stored in the __data directory.
<a name="Dropdown>
The dropdown_v2 YML file is used to construct the top nav when the site is viewed on desktops and tablets.
The YML map is divided into collections of menu sections. Menu sections are commented when they begin, for example;
#----------Product SubNav------------Each menu item is represented in the YML map as a collection of key value pairs and begins with a dash (-) symbol. An indented collection indicates it is a child of the collection above it. Example:
#-----------Overview---------------
- sectionId: 0
sectionName: Overview
link:
isHeader: 1
hasSubMenus: 1
submenus:
- subsectionId: 0
sectionId: 0
sectionName: Overview
title: What is Prebid?
link: /overview/intro.html
needsDivider: 0
isHeader: 0
isSubSectionStart: 1The collection with the title property "What Is Prebid?" is a child of the collection directly above it with the sectionName "Overview"
Top Nav Menu Collection Properties
Note: A collection does not have to contain all properties. For Bools 1 = true, 0 = false
| Key | Type | Example | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| sectionId | Int | 3 | Indicates the menu section of an item. |
| sectionName | string | Overview | The display name of the section. |
| link | string | /overview/intro.html | The relative link that the menu item should open. |
| isHeader | bool | 1 | Indicates if this item is a section header. |
| hasSubMenus | bool | 1 | Indicates if this item has submenus. |
| submenus | collection | If the item has submenus they will be contained in a collection of collections. | |
| subsectionId | int | 3 | Indicates the subsection of an item. |
| needsDivider | bool | 0 | Indicates if the subsection item is the last item in the section and requires a divider. Deprecated |
| isSubsectionStart | bool | 0 | Indicates if the item is the start of a subsection. Deprecated |
Code Use
This data file is read in the nav.html file using Liquid. (__includes/nav.html).
<a name="Sidebar>
The sidebar YML file is used to construct the left side navigation when the site is viewed on desktops and tablets and the top navigation when viewed on phones.
The YML map is divided into collections of menu sections. Menu sections are commented when they begin, for example;
#--------------Overview--------------|Each menu item is represented in the YML map as a collection of key value pairs and begins with a dash (-) symbol. An indented collection indicates it is a child of the collection above it. Example:
#--------------Overview--------------|
- sbSecId: 0
title:
link:
isLastSubSectionItem: 0
isHeader: 0
isSectionHeader: 1
sectionTitle: Overview
sectionId: overview
subgroup: 1000
sbCollapseId: overview
- sbSecId: 0
title: General
link:
isLastSubSectionItem: 0
isHeader: 1
headerId: general
isSectionHeader: 0
sectionTitle:
subgroup: 0Side Nav Menu Collection Properties
Note: A collection does not have to contain all properties. For bools 1 = true, 0 = false*
| Key | Type | Example | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| sbSecId | int | 3 | Indicates the menu section of an item. |
| title | string | General | The text displayed for the menu section. |
| link | string | /overview/intro.html | The relative link that the menu item opens. |
| isLastSubSectionItem | bool | 0 | Indicates if the menu item is the last item in a subsection. |
| isHeader | bool | 0 | Indicates if the menu item is a sub section header. |
| headerId | string | general | Required if isHeader = 1. Used to identify which div object is being toggled. |
| isSectionHeader | bool | 0 | Indicates if the menu item is a section header. |
| sectionTitle | string | Overview | Text displayed for the section. |
| sectionId | string | overview | Required if isHeader = 1. Used to identify which div object is being toggled. |
| subgroup | int | 3 | Indicates the subgroup that contains this item. |
| sbCollapseId | string | overview | Required if isSectionHeader = 1. Used to identify which div object is being toggled. |
Code Use
This data file is read in the page_v2.html file using Liquid.
<a name="Messages>
The messsages YML file is used to construct the message displayed on the Prebid homepage. Each message is represented in the YML map as a collection of key value pairs, each collection is prefixed with a dash (-).
- messageId: 1
messageText: Prebid.org has a new look! See the <a href="/blog/updated-website">blog entry</a> for more info.
messageCreateDt: 01_08_2019| Key | Type | Example | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| messageId | int | 0 | A unique identifier for each message |
| messageText | string | A message | The displayed text. (Use HTML formatting for links.) |
| messageCreateDt | string | 01_08_2019 | Date the message was created, for historical purposes. |
Code Use
This data file is read in the home.html file using Liquid.
There are 200+ bidder files in the /dev-docs/bidders directory describing the parameters for each Prebid.js bidder. There are two unfortunately identical pieces of code that process them:
- /_layouts/bidder.html - this is used to generate the single-bidder version of the page like https://prebid.org/dev-docs/bidders/rubicon.html
- /dev-docs/bidders.md - this is used to generate the (large) combined page at https://prebid.org/dev-docs/bidders.html
The attributes in the Jekyll 'front matter' drive various behaviors and dynamic tables elsewhere on the site.
| Key | Required? | Values | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| layout | yes | bidder | Links this file to the bidder.html layout |
| title | yes | company name | For display |
| description | no | - | Not used |
| hide | no | - | Not used |
| biddercode | yes | preferred bidder code | Used as the default ad server targeting suffix and the default download filename |
| aliasCode | no | download filename | Overrides the filename used to build the PBJS package on the download page |
| prevBiddercode | no | secondary bidder code | Adds a note about an alternate code that may have been used. |
| bidder_supports_deals | no | true or false, whether the adapter supports deals | For display. Defaults to 'true'. |
| s2s_only | no | true or false, whether the adapter is server-to-server only | Adds a note to the display. Defaults to 'false'. |
| gdpr_supported | no | true or false, whether the adapter supports GDPR | For display. Defaults to 'false'. |
| coppa_supported | no | true or false, whether the adapter supports COPPA | For display. Defaults to 'false'. |
| media_types | no | comma-separated list of: banner, video, native | For display. |
| userIds | no | comma-separated list of supported user id modules | For display. |
| prebid_member | no | true or false, whether this company is a prebid.org member | For display. |
The bidderCode, aliasCode, and prevBiddercode parameters bear some description.
Some adapters have a longer bidderCode and a shorter bidderCode -- their adapter supports both (with the alias feature) but
there's only one documentation file and of course one PBJS adapter file. An relatively common scenario is when the company started off with a
long bidderCode, but found it awkward to set up ad server targeting variables because GAM limits you to 20 chars, which is easy to exceed
with a prefix like hb_cache_host. So they wanted to have shorter bidderCode for new customers while supporting the legacy targeting variables. In that scenario, they:
- add the shorter code as an alias in their PBJS file, which can stay the old longer name
- change the biddercode to the shorter name as it's the new preferred code
- add aliasCode so the Download page will pull in the right module
- optionally add prevBiddercode to add a note to the page about the legacy value
We use Algolia for site search.
- The configuration defining the search parameters is at https://github.com/algolia/docsearch-configs/blob/master/configs/prebid.json
- Only elements p, th, td, li, code, and h1-h3 are indexed
- Code implementation in _includes/body-end.html and a the 'site-search' div in the header.