Summary

Today I looked at my personal website and hated it. It’s summer and I have some time, so I figure I may as well redesign from the ground up.

I did not do much coding today, instead I focused on the things I like about my current website and the things I would like to improve on

Good things:

• Simple, lightweight, React website. I don’t have a ton of media and animations and that’s good. I don’t want to spend a ton of time doing updates and maintaining
• The ReactRouter is easy to use, and fast from a user standpoint
• It has 2/3 pillars I want → About, Work I would like to add a writing section

Bad things:

• It looks like shit. Everything about it.

On the coding front I set up my React-App, refreshed myself on the ReactRouter, and set up routing for 3 pages (about, work, and writing). I also decided to use ChakraUI b/c I am familiar w/ the framework and it will make my styling cleaner, more consistent, and easier to maintain.