Custom Portfolio and Website Personal Project | Fall 2023 - Present

In the fall of 2023, I decided to take a lecture offered by the business school that brought in various successful experts and CEOs from large companies to talk on a subject of their choosing. One of the assignments for the class was to create an online portfolio. Before taking this class, I had already been thinking about learning to write HTML and CSS, and I had purchased this domain. This assignment gave me the excuse to finally learn these skills and put them to use.

While others used website creation services, I wrote the code for this website on my own. I originally started by watching a web series on learning web design and I wrote all of the HTML and CSS for my first page by hand. You can still see the result of that in my home page, about page, and contact page. However, the projects page is much newer (which is why it looks better in my opinion). I have still done a lot of the creative design work myself, but I’ve started to use ChatGPT to help write the structural HTML and CSS, because it’s really a pain to lay out the groundwork by hand. After getting this structural framework, I have gone in and added the detail to make items exactly as I want to see them. I don’t love using generative AI for work, but I think this is an example of a perfect use case for it. I don’t need to pay any company to design my site for me, and I’m able to focus on the areas I want to, without wasting hours of my time struggling through the menial work of HTML and CSS structuring. It’s a win-win.