Building This Site

This site is a deliberate choice to own the infrastructure rather than depend on a third-party platform. Building it myself meant understanding exactly how it works and retaining full control to change it.

It’s built on a modern static site framework with a deliberately simple design: fast load times, responsive across devices, and unobtrusive. It’s a technical portfolio, not a marketing site.

This site documents projects I’m working on, technical lessons learned, and infrastructure decisions worth recording.

Good documentation and follow-through matter as much as the initial build. This site is where that discipline gets applied and recorded.

Still changing

This site didn’t look like this when I first wrote this post. The layout started as a sidebar with a light theme by default. I’ve since moved it to a top nav, switched to a dark-first background with a faint circuit-trace pattern, and gone through a full pass of accessibility and SEO work: a skip link, structured data for search engines, a sitemap, and response headers I hadn’t bothered with the first time around.

The IT Skills Kit and this site also used to run on completely different color palettes. I brought them onto the same blue so they read as one thing instead of two projects that just happen to link to each other.

Here’s the homepage then and now.

Early version: sidebar nav, light theme by default, no background pattern.

Current version: top nav, dark theme by default, a faint circuit-trace pattern in the background.

This is an actively maintained project. I’ll continue refining it as requirements change and better approaches present themselves.

Future write-ups will cover new projects and infrastructure work as they’re completed.