How many of you have your own website? Did you create it in one go? Launch it and then build it over time?
I haven't created mine yet, hoping to be inspired. Would love to hear about how you decided to design it the way you did.
If you have your own website, please share it below!
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I'm in progress of making one for me.
mvpop.co.uk
Hi, Yes I have a website and I built it in a week, Designed and then converted that to WordPress using elementor builder.
codewithghazi.com
I do! It started as a single page with a fun image and a couple of sentences about who I am. Then I added an about page, and a contact page. After that, I added a portfolio with some of my best projects on it.
Then I removed everything but the image and a couple of sentences about who I am. I realized my portfolio was tragically out of date and I was never going to find the energy to update my projects π
I swap out the sentences about once a year now. Here's where I landed π€·ββοΈ
I started mine recently. I have been thinking to do it for so long but every time I have some excuse/reason to not start it... At first I was thinking of making everything from scratch but after all I wanted to focus on writing and sharing my knowledge so I end up using a very minimalistic theme and built the site on top of it. I wanted to launch it as quickly as possible and incrementally build over it. It took a little more than a week to get it live. I have made some adjustments and improvements here and there afterwards. Maybe in the future I am going to redesign it all by myself.
The site is at belev.dev
I like how clear your page is. Pure simplicity.
Thank you π, I was looking for such a template/theme- something very minimal.
Looks good, Martin! I like the light/dark mode capability.
Thank you βΊοΈ
Hey Jeannie π
I was too in the similar state few months back and looked for inspiration and finally built my first ever portfolio site.
You can read my blog here on the journey of building it. It was fun and it took lot of going through several Dev portfolio sites for small inspirations. Hope this helps u.
How I built my first portfolio website using just Angular
Vikram Kadiam γ» Jul 10 γ» 3 min read
Yes...check my bio. π
Yes, I do have my own website. I work as a freelancer and know how important it is to have a presentation of yourself. But even if you are working within a company I would create a minimalistic one with a blog on it. If you are changing your job or looking for a job a website can be an advantage for you to present yourself.
I started with writing down what I want to archive and whom I want to have on my site. Not that everybody else shouldn't visit but I wanted to know my target group. From my target group, I made three personas and wrote down what they could like or dislike. Writing this down as a significant influence on my design and my content.
Then I started to develop it. I wrote a blog post about how I did this:
My web performance experiment - a speed field trial
Marc γ» Jun 3 γ» 9 min read
Check it out: marcradziwill.com/
I didn't create it in one go. I am a friend of progressive enhancement and things change anyway. The only thing a did in one go before I started was to write the initial content. It helped me to get an image of how my site could look like.
If you start your own site, let us know. I am curious π
By the way, I am currently migrating my site from Gatsby to eleventy π€·π»ββοΈπ
Thanks for the advice, Marc! I'm a friend of progressive enhancement as well. There's always more to be done! Really dig the website, love that your favicon looks just like you.
Thank you, Jeannie π
I am currently migrating to 11ty π€·ββοΈ
So like you are saying: "There is always more to be done"
Yep I own a Blog on blog.bajonczak.com ths will be hostet with vuepress and static Website hosting. So it will be fast and looks pretty simple. Adding a new article will be done with markdown.
Very nice I like. But I only use this for bloggin purpose and very unfrequently at the moment.
I'm building remy.world step by step but I published it as soon as I got something readable there. It's kind of the ground rules of getting a project done: don't wait for it to be perfect.
I use my website as a way to try out different stacks/technologies but most of the time it's just a place for my blog: kartikn.me
I run a light web server on a free TK domain, with links to most of my projects, maybe some tests of forum/SQL-based engines, and some programming files hosted
donnaken15.tk
Let us know when it's online so we can check it out, Wesley!
its back, have to use an old cpanel i used to use though until i can resolve my home server not being public i guess
Thank you π. I am using a template - github.com/LekoArts/gatsby-themes/....
Indeed!
One of the best decisions in my career, to share who I am and what I can do.
Here is mine.
I also built a Blog over time.
I think in this sector the online presence it's essential. You never know who may be interested in (not what you do) but how you do things. β¨
Nice site, DesirΓ©! I really like that you do both design AND development, on top of educational videos.
Thank you!
I started mine from a prebuilt theme and later redesigned it little by little, now it looks the way I want it to look. devpractical.com
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