I planned this website as a two-week project in 2024 (as a resume booster), after Elai Mizrahi and Eshaan Mehta showed me the websites they had made for themselves.
When I started, I knew literally nothing about web design, and so I used OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 to help me get started. Things quickly got more complicated than GPT 3.5 could assist with, and even the parts it could do required some hand-holding, so I incidentally ended up learning enough HTML and CSS to keep me afloat. W3Schools.com filled in any other gaps.
During any of the little coding projects I had done in the past, the aspect that I enjoyed most was creating an elegant user experience. Web design, being almost entirely user experience, ended up being the most fun project I had done yet; it stopped being a two-week resume booster project and became a four-month passion project.
In the summer of 2026, I revamped the whole site using Claude Code (primarily using Opus 4.7), which was unbelievably quick. Making the full site the first time around took literally four months, but rebuilding it from scratch took only a few days.
I use Vercel for the hosting of the site. I highly recommend using them as your web hosting platform if you decide to take on a project like this. This whole website costs me around $15 a year for the domain “keogan.ca,” which I got from GoDaddy; the hosting via Vercel is completely free.