add demo talks page, improve talks pages a lot

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+---
+title: "Creating Beautiful Presentations with Story"
+date: 2018-05-08T16:00:00-05:00
+event: "RemarkConf 2018"
+location: "Mount Remarkable, 6346+F7 Wilmington, South Australia, Australia"
+site: "https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/find-a-park/Browse_by_region/flinders-ranges-outback/mount-remarkable-national-park"
+slides: /slides/adirondack/
+image: "/slides/adirondack/leo-serrat-533922-unsplash.jpg"
+description: "Story's RemarkJS frameworks help you create sophisticated slides with simple, clean Markdown. There are predefined layouts for most presentation needs, beautiful typography and colors, precise image control, and a simple modular way to create custom layouts."
+thumbnail: /slides/adirondack/thumbnail.jpg
+---
+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.
+<!--more-->
+
+Talks are designed to go together with slides. I (Baron, the author of Story)
+create a talk page for every speaking appearance. Sometimes I reuse slides
+between talks, so multiple talks pages link to the same slides. I also feature
+the cover image from the slides as my talks page's featured image. I put the
+speaking proposal / abstract into the body of the talks page's content, where
+this text you're reading right now is stored.
+
+Talks are included in RSS feeds and in the homepage listing of the site, but
+slides aren't. This way people find out about my speaking, but they see no
+duplicate content.
+
+Sometimes I 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](/talks/) 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:
+
+```yaml
+---
+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"
+---
+```