Over time, I have used my website as a mean to gauge my progress in learning web dev, while challenging myself to push further.

For the first iteration of this site, my focus was learning the basics of HTML and CSS and how to actually publish a website. The second iteration focused on multi-page navigation with Reacti, as well as TailwindCSS, This iteration was focused on design, advanced CSS, and accessibility.

The site uses NextJS with TailwindCSS. Everything still works even when javascript is turned off, which was both a fun challenge and a good way to learn more about CSS.

There are quite a few places where Tailwind by itself was insufficient for the specificity of what I wanted to accomplish. CSS is extremely capable and I had to use some very specific techniques to accomplish what I wanted. I also ran into a weird firefox-exclusive bug with the home link gradient effect, which was really interesting to encounter and work around.

I'm glad how the site turned out. Design is still my greatest challenge, but I am glad to see that I'm slowly getting better on that front. It's good that my website looks nicer than it used to, and I learned a lot along the way.