Novice Coder Confused With Portfolio

[troycapybara]

First of all I just want to say that I think that your website is amazing and I want to thank you profusely for making it to help out people like me.

My issue is that I can't add anything to the portfolio for some reason.

I'm trying to add a new .md file to the /_portfolio/ file, but it won't show up on my site, and I'm not sure why. This is my code, am I doing something wrong? I would love if I could get this to work, so any feed back would be super appreciated!

---
layout: post
title: Wienerschnitzel Campaign
feature-img: "assets/img/portfolio/hotdog.png"
img: "assets/img/portfolio/hotdog.png"
date: Fall 2018 Semester
tags: [advertising]
---
![image]({{ page.img | relative_url }})

In fall of 2018, a team of 3 other Advertising students and I created a complete advertising strategy and executed a multi-channel campaign for our Strategic Advertising Campaign Development class. </br> </br> We tackled the challenge presented by the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) for their annual student competition: how to make hot dogs a little bit less scary. The competition was sponsored by Wienerschnitzel, a fast food chain that sells hot dogs. In completing this task my group and I did a situational analysis of the industry, as well as analyzing Wienerschnitzel's unique brand position in this space. We also created unique customer profiles to try and better encapsulate the target market for this campaign. Next, we drafted a creative brief, and then finally made and then executed our creative concepts. </br> </br> Elements of our idea was incorporated into the final campaign Marist presented at NSAC and won third place! Our full campaign book can be viewed at [the link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rXB1ETw81uXgI4TqZ78L5Y4FLBl1ZBEZ/view)

[sylhare]

Hi,

So when trying to build the site you should have seen this error:

   Error: could not read file /Users/sylhare/Documents/Github/Type-on-Strap/_portfolio/test.md: Invalid date 'Fall 2018 Semester': Document '_portfolio/test.md' does not have a valid date in the YAML front matter.
   ERROR: YOUR SITE COULD NOT BE BUILT:
   ------------------------------------
   Invalid date 'Fall 2018 Semester': Document '_portfolio/test.md' does not have a valid date in the YAML front matter.

You absolutely need to put the date under the right format for it to work:

• Try replacing Fall 2018 Semester by 2018-09-01 and it should all be working fine

For the format you need something like yyyy-mm-dd or another date format that can be yml parsed.
I will add this one to the documentation that to the documetation.
If you have more issue with it let me know 😉

[troycapybara]

Thank you!! So helpful! :)