My personal website. A place to display my hiking trips, photos, entries and projects. View it here.
The front end was created with Gatsbyjs, and styled with TailwindCSS. All images and text are stored on Contentful and the site is hosted on Netlify. The text provided by Contentful is rendered into normal html using MDX, which is like Markdown, but renders jsx and styling. This allows me to style dynamically generated HTML and bypass any TailwindCSS constraints.
- Harmen Hoek's travel itinerary for inspiration to create, design and document my adventures.
- Jamie Barnes' website for further design inspiration.
- Max Mitchell's video on building his website with Gatsby and using Contentful. This was my first exposure to the world of content management systems in a well-layed out video with a tangible result at the end.
- Add pagination and search function for records and photos once they reach a certain size.
- Add a carousel for the main banner image.
- Write and publish records on non-hiking activities.
- Alter the styling to sooth my perfectionism.
For a long time I have wanted to create a site capable of supporting the material (primarily images) I've gathered on my travels. Eventually, this cultivated itself as the website you see today. The challenge of building a website like this presented itself as an ample opportunity to use technologies that were previously unknown to me, and allow me to creatively express myself in a manner I have never done before. Ultimately, the content on this website is for myself to look back at the adventures I've been on, and for those who are interested in seeing what I've been up to.