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Porter Swanstrom


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WHY

This site started as something interesting for me to work on during my break after the Fall 2023 semester ended. It's turned out to be a fantastic excuse to learn HTML, CSS, and Git

LOG

2025/03/09

After using my own pseudo-SSG for a bit, I have started experimenting with more a complete SSG. Also, this site now runs on a server which I configured. This gives the site far more potential than it had before. For instance, I'm already running a git server which integrates with the site. The server has been running smoothly for about a month now

2025/01/02

I programmed a shell script to automatically generate the header and footer of each page. This gives me most of the convenience and consistency of an SSG, while still keeping the fine-tuned control of HTML for the main page content

2024/10/16

There's now sitemap navigation which is nice for jumping to a specific page, it's also great for documenting the purpose of each page. I also added a photo of myself to the header, making it less empty looking. The header photo also works good as a favicon. Another thing I did was adding background images, one for dark mode and one for light mode. I'm not sure how long I'll end up keeping the backgrounds, but they're fun for the time being

2024/06/15

I redid the header and made the CSS look nicer. There's also been lots of minor improvements like having newlines in the correct spots and lots of rewording. This site is now in a fairly stable state, so most important changes will be from either adding new pages or totally redesigning something

2024/03/25

Every page has been moved to its own directory so that this site can use URL slugs without relying on a framework or web server. Now the URL of every page looks much cleaner. There is also an error page now so when someone tries going to a page that doesn't exist like this one, they're sent to an error page and then redirected to the homepage page after a few seconds

2024/02/04

There's now a page for the various WinForms that I've made throughout my classes in college. I also changed this site's theme quite a bit since the last log

2023/12/31

I got the domain name porterswanstrom.com and created two A records, one for plain porterswanstrom.com and another for w.porterswanstrom.com. the latter is setup to auto-redeploy everytime a change is made to this site, so that the changes can be tested before being deployed to porterswanstrom.com

2023/12/18

I figured out how to get the spacing and font size to work right on mobile, so now this site looks great on mobile

2023/12/13

I designed a light mode for this site and added CSS to set the theme depending on whether someone is using dark mode or light mode

2023/12/10

This site has some color now, it's currently dark mode with green links, a lot of redish orange headers, and a few purple headers

2023/12/09

I started this site on the 6th and so far the only pages are the homepage, projects page, and about page. I also started to add some basic CSS and successfully got a working header and footer

GET

The source code is here, get it with:

git clone http://porterswanstrom.com/git/w

Made by PORTER SWANSTROM