Website Revamp! And introduction to my Work Journal.
<p>My website has gone slightly stagnent lately, so I decided that it was time for a revamp. There were a few things I didn’t like about the old website:</p> <ul> <li>As a developer with some design chops, I never liked the fact that I hadn’t designed my website myself. I was using the <a href="http://hyde.getpoole.com">Hyde theme for Jekyll</a>.</li> <li>I felt boxed in by the fact that all my previous posts were longer-form articles.</li> <li>While <a href="https://jekyllrb.com">Jekyll</a> is a great tool, it’s very blogging-centric, and I wanted to add new types of content.</li> </ul> <p>So I re-designed the website from scratch using <a href="http://middlemanapp.com">Middleman</a>. I started with <a href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/middleman-template">Thoughtbot’s base Middleman template</a>, but I changed quite a bit from there. And all the design is custom. I’m pretty happy with the result. And finally, I added a “Work Journal”, where I plan to write shorter, more informal posts on what’s going on in my work. That could be something I learned, a book I just read, a status update on a side project, etc.</p> <p>Exciting things to come!</p>