About this Site - Intro

Introduction

I spent the bet­ter part of my win­ter break re­vamp­ing my per­sonal web­site (of which this blog is a com­po­nent). You can view the old site here: nait­ian.github.io.

If you want to skip to an­other part of this walk­through, I have links to all of the avail­able parts listed for you here:

1. Design

Setting Goals

I think it’s im­por­tant to con­sider what the goals, de­sires, and re­quire­ments are for every pro­ject.

While I was gen­er­ally sat­is­fied with the old web­site, there were some is­sues that I felt needed ad­dress­ing.

• The over­abun­dance of col­ors pulled from fla­tu­i­col­ors.com was busy, and seemed like it was­n’t well thought out.
• The ter­mi­nal in the back­ground never worked very well, and ul­ti­mately did­n’t do every­thing I wanted it to. I wanted a dy­namic “terminal” through which you could ba­si­cally browse the en­tire web­site.
• I had got­ten tired of the one-page lay­out, af­ter also us­ing for the Dev Club Website, so I wanted to chal­lenge my­self with a new type of lay­out.
• I wanted to start up the blog again, and the orig­i­nal Jekyll blog was kind of a pain to work with. I wanted to min­i­mize the fric­tion in­volved with pub­lish­ing new posts, which would in turn en­cour­age me to write more.

Okay, so those were the things that I took is­sue with. However, there were some as­pects of the site that I wanted to keep.

• I liked the ter­mi­nal; it’s fun and nerdy. So I wanted to keep it, but maybe make it a bit more sub­tle.
• I liked hav­ing dis­tinct col­ors for the dif­fer­ent sec­tions.