As any self-respected developer, I redesigned my site many times. To be more precise, there were 6 significant redesigns. I thought it would be fun to

The evolution of the design of my site

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2021-07-08 07:00:09

As any self-respected developer, I redesigned my site many times. To be more precise, there were 6 significant redesigns. I thought it would be fun to document all these designs and see the evolution. In this review, I will focus mainly on the homepage.

I created this site back in 2016. The first site was built on my custom PHP-based CMS. After that, I moved to WordPress. At that time, static site generators became popular, and I was lucky to jump on that train. In 2017, I decided to switch to Hexo and Netlify. Hexo provided what I needed, but this year I moved my site (quite seamlessly) to Eleventy as I was reading about the excellent developer experience of the platform. I got to tell you, I could achieve so much more with Eleventy than with Hexo.

Unfortunately, I don't have any versions of the initial design. Since my site was relatively small, even the Wayback Machine site didn't record it. The only thing I remember was that I wanted to develop my PHP-based drag-n-drop CMS. How young and optimistic was I, right?

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