It uses an old version of CodeIgniter and there is no CMS so all the pages are hand-coded HTML.
At the time it was originally created I was using CodeIgniter for a lot of projects so there weren't many challenges in creating it from a PHP code point of view. Being a back-end focused developer the biggest challenges were probably figuring out the design and CSS to make it work.
Also writing all the content for the Winwheel.js docs was a massive task and took ages but I think the library was better as a result as some of the option names and ways of doing things were simplified as only then did I realise how clunky some of it was.
In terms of deployment, testing etc. The spell-check feature in Open Office writer is my tester to weed out spelling and grammar mistakes. Deployment is an FTP via filezilla.
Current plans are to re-build the site in a modern framework with a CMS so I can create new pages easily and quickly.
The main personal website I work on is dougtesting.net/
It uses an old version of CodeIgniter and there is no CMS so all the pages are hand-coded HTML.
At the time it was originally created I was using CodeIgniter for a lot of projects so there weren't many challenges in creating it from a PHP code point of view. Being a back-end focused developer the biggest challenges were probably figuring out the design and CSS to make it work.
Also writing all the content for the Winwheel.js docs was a massive task and took ages but I think the library was better as a result as some of the option names and ways of doing things were simplified as only then did I realise how clunky some of it was.
In terms of deployment, testing etc. The spell-check feature in Open Office writer is my tester to weed out spelling and grammar mistakes. Deployment is an FTP via filezilla.
Current plans are to re-build the site in a modern framework with a CMS so I can create new pages easily and quickly.
Nice! I am currently working/struggling with Code Igniter 2.
After Express, react, rust, j2ee, etc.. it feels ... hard and old '