Making a Personal Website
My mind goes all over the place when it comes to projects. I bounce from one to the other with not much rhyme nor reason. If I'm lucky I'll juggle multiple projects at once; and right now I'm feeling lucky.
My newest project is designing a future website / landing page for all of my projects. I'm designing it with Eleventy, sort of from scratch. I am plucking different CSS styles from different places, but I am attempting to do most of it myself.
I have some ideas for what it will contain:
- A brief "about me" summary on the main page (right now, I have a cheesy Obi-Wan Kenobi GIF where that would sit)
- A list of all my writing projects
- A list of my podcasts
- Social Media contact info (though this could sit in a footer or as part of the navigation links, dunno)
- A longer "about me" page
It is technically alive, online, but I'm not sharing the URL. I only uploaded it to share with some people privately. I'm building it locally on my computer, with the intent on buying a domain name and finally making it public when it's done.1
I'm going to provide updates periodically in the form of screenshots, and I'll collect the posts in a separate page here on Bear Blog. For now, this is the only post, so no page yet. Here are the screenshots of the current progress, featuring a placeholder GIF and Lorem Ipsum text!
"Done" meaning I'm satisfied with the layout and have most of the content I want listed. Nothing is ever truly finished, right?↩