New version of my website is up!
Thank you to everyone who’s helped me with this site.** This is the biggest change to it yet in terms of design, since I started adding content here on this domain from 2021 onwards.
Back then I’d put up a site with all of the books I’d designed so far, hand-coded with only HTML, CSS, and a sprinkling of JavaScript. I needed a way to get my graphic design work online, and I wasn’t keen to use a site builder for that, for various reasons. Then, around this time in 2022, I got the next version online — it used some PHP to template my content, and that’s what had been in place till now.
In 2023 I got introduced to the world of static site generators (SSGs), and I picked up HUGO, based on the programming language Go. This site has now been rebuilt with HUGO, which templates content in a different way compared to a PHP-based, or database-dependent system, like WordPress. I genuinely like how this SSG runs. It’s a bit of a learning curve, and melts my brain on occasion, but I cannot recommend it enough to get your content (on a static website) out there.
As of now, most of the projects under ‘Graphic Design’ from the earlier site have been ported to this one. There’s more of my work that needs to be added here as well.. Also two entirely new sections: ‘Vault’, and ‘Texts’, for which the templating has to be worked out some more. Other things to come in, still: the site layout on mobile, image captions, and also some navigational features on the project pages.
And as an aside: I’ll use this space to add more general updates as well, and not just the website-related ones.
** Thank you for helping get to this version of the site (knowingly and unknowingly):
Aashish Shakeel, Aditi Rajeev, Ajai Narendran, Alejandro Sánchez Medina, Anil Ananthaswamy, Ankush Arora, Anuja Ghosalkar, Ashwin J, Balaji Gopalan, Bhavna Kakar, Bindu Chandana, Deepak Srinath, Deepika Arwind, Jay Krishnan Menon, Kai Tuchmann, Lakshna Mehta, Marcel Müller, Musharraf Shaikh [K O], Nihaal Faizal, Nisha Abdulla, Nupur Bala, Odoriko, Priya Rajeev, Raghu Tenkayala, Ramesh Kalkur, Ritwik Deshpande, Sathish Kumar Manivannan, Shravan Shetty, Soundarya, Sruti Chaganti, Sudeep Vashistha, Sumelika Bhattacharyya, Suraj Sunny Sumanth, Thanik Jaganath, Upendra Vaddadi, and Vishak Ayyappan