As the title says, I coded my first own website - although it's not done, far from it, just wondering what you think? What could I improve on in terms of placement etc.
milestonehackers.com
HTML/CSS/JS/Firebase for those wondering.
How much content do you expect to have? Is it in the thousands? What's your expected time for the updates to be progressed to the website. You can have a static website with Gatsby hosted by Netlify and powered by a headless CMS such as Contentful(or wordpress endpoint). It will load extremely fast, however, build time may take a few minutes for changes to be made and it depends on your websites complexity.
I plan to expand the content quite a bit. At this point I wouldnt say 1,000s as that s far away.
I really wanted to focus on coding everything myself, and still want to head in that direction.
I appreciate your reply, thank you.
You still do code and you don't have to maintain the backend service(API). You only code the frontend and there is a neat ecosystem around gatsby such as image optimization.
Oh, did I mention it would cost you almost nothing!?
Yup, gatsby is amazing.
I'm obviously new lol. Thanks for that info, I'll check it out!!
Great start, I'd recommend making it mobile responsive from the get go. On average about 75% of all internet traffic is through mobiles
Thanks, I realized halfway through, I should have started with mobile, it was a pain to go back and figure out the responsive stuff. Thanks for the tip.
It's good to learn how to code your own site. Two things that I would work on improving if I were you are the alignment of things on the page, and load performance. Use developer tools to see what's taking a long time to load. I have https://lionstoothsoftware.com loading pretty quickly (e.g. load smaller background images at narrower browser widths using CSS media queries).
Oh, and you need to close the parenthesis in the first paragraph.
Oh thanks, I will take a look at all that. I suspect the logo is taking some bandwidth as it high KB's but I shrunk it down.