Obligatory post about creating my own website

I made this site in part to showcase my work, but also to be conducive to my resolution to write more. For me, writing is a good way to organize my thoughts and think more critically about assumptions and decisions I’ve made.

My goal is to write at least something about every project I work on this year.

On that note, here’s some points on the process of creating this site

Because the most pressing function of this site was to show I’m at least halfway competent in developing a website I started this project very conscious that everything should be polished. It had to be responsive, accessible, and have a great user experience. As part of that last point I wanted my site to be unique and memorable, which lead me down a rabbit hole of trying out really experimental designs while at the same time figuring out how all the future components should come together in a cohesive design system and at the same time be accessible.

In the end I landed on a fairly standard layout with a pretty normal color scheme. I think one lesson learned from this is that I shouldn’t be afraid to start from the normal ways of doing things and experiment from there. My time would be better spent doing other things, and it’s not a feasible goal to try to revolutionize every single aspect of the site.

The way forward

I should be more conscious about modules. The site was put together rather quickly and the layout handling logic is very ad hoc. I’m guessing I should start with ensuring components are atomic, and don’t enforce layout restrictions on parent components. A “Spacer” utility component that takes various CSS fields as properties could be a solution?