Modify the psiTurk templates

The next step is to modify the psiTurk templates for use with your experiment.

Anatomy of a psiTurk project

Every turkAGL experiment template is a psiTurk project. When you open a psiTurk project, you will see the following files and folders:

Each of these files and folders contains important aspects of your psiTurk experiment, described here:

config.txt
a local configuration file that contains the unique settings for an individual experiment.
participants.db
psiTurk will create this SQLLite database (if you do not already see it in your folder) for storing data
server.log
psiTurk creates a server process log the first time you run the server. It contains error messages and warnings (the psiTurk web server process will not print to the Terminal).
static
a folder that holds files which are not dynamically altered by the psiTurk server (e.g. images, fonts, javascript libraries, css sheets, etc)
templates
a folder that holds the HTML templates for different parts of your experiment, which are dynamically updated by the psiTurk server.

We can take a closer look inside the static folder to see exactly what it contains.

css
a folder containing the css style-sheets that describe how the HTML should be presented (e.g. layout, color, font, etc)
favicon.ico
the little icon that appears next to the URL in the browser window.
fonts
a folder containing the fonts that are used.
js
a folder containing the javascript libraries required for the experiment. util.js are some functions that support psiTurk and jsPsych is the javascript library for building psychology experiments.
lib
a folder containing all of the external javascript libraries needed by psiTurk.
stimuli
a folder containing all of the stimuli that will be used by your experiment. (This is the only folder in the static folder that you need to make changes to.