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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Yes :) This is my website:
aligoren.com
Very creative 'About Me' section, Ali!
Hehe. Thank you :) 🐈
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 🙃, I was looking for such a template/theme- something very minimal.
Looks good, Martin! I like the light/dark mode capability.
Thank you ☺️
My first website in 1997:
bugsy.me/pipeline/4178/
And many, many iterations and domain names later:
bugsy.me
Each one was launched with minimal need and grown or shrunk from there. Changing platforms, changing content, you name it. I've always seen it as my playground to do what I want, it's not for clients, it's not for anyone else, but just for my own amusement. If someone else enjoys it along the way, that's great!
1997! Dang! I was probably learning to wear my pants right! 👌
Love the first and current website comparison, Bugsy! Looks good!
I love your projects and activities. It reminds me of the web back before social media. (Sniff, sniff, nostalgia!) I will be adding Plaidurday to my calendar.
Thank you so much Ciscospice!
I made the base version in one go. Took me about 2-3 hours. After that, whenever I learn something new I try to include it in my portfolio in some way. For example, recently I learned about Mapbox. So, I added that to my portfolio.
thesanjeevsharma.now.sh - Built using ReactJS + NextJS and TailwindCSS.
I like the colors you chose to go with, Sanjeev!
I do have my own website, it's fun to have one. Have been a bit lazy lately and my website totally needs a tidy up (just like my room) 😝
I used Jekyll and hosted on GitHub. I would say that's the easiest way to make a website. There are lot's of free Jekyll themes available and you just need to put some personal touch to it. You may want something fancier if you are a web dev (or want to be a web dev though) ✨
But I am happy with mine so far, check it out here: cheuk.dev
Nicely made
I just bookmarked your OOT project. I’d like to help out!
Hi Jeannie !
I have just finished mine and I can tell you it's definitely worth it.
I was not confident in myself and my design skills are not very good but I chose to make one anyway and I don't regret it.
My advice would be to choose a framework you want to master in order to improve your skills at the same time. For example mine was made with Gatsby which I didn't know before developing my site.
You wan have a look at mine : nicolasmaret.fr
Sorry for non French speakers !
I like how you built the menu on mobile, Nicolas. Clean work!
Thank you for your feedback Jeannie! Did you decide to make your own?
I did! Everyone's sites are so creative, can't wait to start building mine. I'll share it once it's live.
Looks beautiful
thanks for your feedback !
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
Yes, but it’s only been online since 1999.
davidgagne.net/
I was kind of expecting it to look like 1999, not the case! Looks great!
Haha! Thanks!
I wish I’d thought to take a screenshot every time I redesigned it over the years ...
Would've loved to see the original page in 1999!
The Internet Wayback Machine actually has a couple of pretty good snapshots from back then. Looks like the earliest one they have is from Aug 2000:
e.g. web.archive.org/web/20000816002939...
I own one and I built it from scratch (I always enjoy doing that). It has gone through stages that help remind me of my growth too😅.
Check it out here tammy.dev
Also, see all the past versions tammy.dev/versions
I dig the current site! Big fan of the versioning as well, that's awesome.
Thanks a lot💗❤
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 😂
I swap out the sentences about once a year now. Here's where I landed 🤷♂️
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