I planned this website as a two-week project (as a resume booster), after Elai Mizrahi and Eshaan Mehta showed me the websites they had made for themselves.
I didn’t use a boilerplate to make this site. I knew literally nothing about web design, so I found it easier to start from complete scratch (any existing code was very intimidating). Initially, I would come up with ideas and ChatGPT would translate them into code, but as things got more complicated, ChatGPT struggled to keep up. Luckily, by that point I had accidentally learned a decent amount of HTML and CSS, and W3Schools 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.
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.