Where I started

1. Stop procrastinating!

If you have spare time, do it. Scrolling through TikTok / Instagram is a waste of time (which I still do). I need to remind myself not to lose my little grey cells and lock in. Work is long so balance hours of sleep at the cost of more development satisfaction on quantity / quality.

2. Dark Mode

Make it darker! My eyeballs are saved from being flashbanged every time I open this site! A useful tool to make websites darker is Darkreader which saved me a lot of eyestrain when browsing the web. I would strongly recommend this extension.

3. Design & Details

Details are important, but how far do you go? Depends, I like simple things (like myself) so prefer an easy aesthetically pleasing minimalistic design.

Smaller details (like box borders and a good colour pallet) can give off a unique feel to the website making it stand out, so long as not too much is added and is not intrusive. Additionally, interactive elements can be used to engage the user and keep them on your website for longer! Yes, making these text boxes clickable is one of those ideas :D

4. Structure

As I love layouts, I enjoy having everything organised properly (despite sucking at doing this in real life) which can be applied to either folders or writing code. EXAMPLE: Use a tree structure for folders and put items in groups if you can, this will make developing quicker and easier for you to identify parts you want to improve / work on.

What now?

5. Text & Hosting

Writing blogs, anything you want really, and a lot of it! This is probably the most time consuming part of making a website, it feels like writing a never-ending book, so take your time. Hosting your site can be tricky, I luckily had a friend who hosts his own server (see Kai-young's Website). When documenting stuff on your hosted site, double check if you want your personal information to be included as (quite self explanatory...) it is public to everyone, and people can find it on a web archive place such as the Wayback Machine.

One thing I would like to do is using a grammar checker with Visual Studio Code, but I feel too lazy to do the extra steps. Maybe when this website is fully developed I will think about adding it.