Devlog I - Personal Website

For a bit of context, I worked on this site earlier however before it was pretty scattered without a gallery, projects, and mostly just had the home page with a weird VantaJS background. I apoligize for not dev logging over the past 7 hours, since I got so caught up in dev work.

For a brief overview, several features I built were:

1. an indexed gallery system that would automatically tile a group of photos in a folder and display them. it would take the name of the photo and split it by _. for each member in the array, it would append it with spaces to become a string making the name of teh place that can be hovered over.
2. On the top left of the navbar, it’ll dynamically render the url based on what page you are on
3. The home page is smaller since my hope was to render it best on the screen of phones. I designed most of the site with smaller screens in mind
4. For projects, I rendered a table of contexts that will jump to projects/#project based on the selected one, automatically going to that index of the page. I linked the code to previous project, bioblitz, however I still need to add more.
5. I put the site on google search console with a sitemap so it will soon be indexed.

Overall, I really love the theme of this site, with the blue accents. I got some inspiration from other research portfolios. In the future, I want to redo the blog page fully since it didn’t have much before but one not dynamically rendered post. Attached are some photos of the pages.