Wow, it's been awhile! My role at work changed, so I haven't been able to update the site at all. In fact, I had messed up the DNS records, so it wasn't even up for awhile! I use Google Workspace for email, Blogger (where this is actually being typed up and posted) and a few other things, but Github and Netlify to host and present the site. When I switched my DNS over to Netlify, I left my MX records at Google, so I wasn't getting new emails. I was expecting an email at [email protected] for a work project, but it wasn't coming through, so I fumbled around and eventually just swapped everything back over to Google. Since I don't have my site hosted at Google, it didn't have anything to display. My poor site was down for quite awhile and I was too busy to even realize it. I've got everything corrected now, though! Now you can read this on my site, then send me an email about how poorly it was written!
I expect that I won't have much downtime with the new role, so I'll probably start working on this in my off time. I like the idea of having something that I made from scratch being out in the universe for the world to see, even if it's just a handful of people here and there. I also want to continue learning HTML/CSS/Javascript and the best way to learn is to do.
Things I still need to do now that the site is actually back up:
- I need to go through and relearn For loops in Javascript so I can change the ForEach loop that pulls my blog posts in the main page to a For loop that stops at 5 items. That shouldn't be too difficult. I just need to play around a bit to make sure I have it right.
- I still need to nix the Contact Me page and redo the nav bar.
- I'm thinking about changing the color scheme to something lighter. Maybe I'll set up a light/dark mode. That's pretty low on the list of priorities, though.