Building my profesionnal website

The project is hosted on github: check it out!

Github link

Introduction

I wanted to have my own professional website, to showcase my data projects and share my thoughts on the industry here. I designed it from scratch with HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript.

Approach

1 - Process

This was an iterative process. I started by going through a HTML/CSS course and then started building a few web pages, to test different things (mainly flex layout and grid layout). I was not fully satisfied with the results, especially because it wasn't responsive enough. After a while, I decided to rebuild it from scratch and do things differently, and better.
I checked a few user experience and web marketing resources and have collected multiple user feedback. I also checked out a few websites that I thought were of good design, for inspiration. Finally, I elaborated a site plan on a canvas and and then started rebuilding my website.

2 - Features

This website is made of 3 components: HTML pages, CSS stylesheet for styling and Javascript code for animations.
It was built as mobile first and then adjusted to desktop, for better responsiveness. Furthermore, web pages have Google tags for analytics purposes.

3 - Hosting

I bought a domain (pierremarionneau.dev) and hosted the website on GitHub, which has the advantage of being free and allow you to use a github domain name or your own.

Conclusion

Building a website is in my opinion a great project for aspiring data analysts, because it calls on a lot of useful skills, from web design (HTML, CSS, eventually JavaScript), user experience principes, using Google Analytics, content writing, etc..
It is accessible to most, unless you opt for an elaborate design and decide to add a lot of features on your pages. Last but not least, it is rewarding to see your project come to life.