Repo for my personal website.
Eric W. Bailey's personal website, ericwbailey.website, serves as a centralized hub for his various internet activities rather than just a portfolio. This update was essential to enhance usability and accessibility, showcasing a more refined approach to presenting his online presence to visitors.
Built using Eleventy, a popular static site generator, the website utilizes valuable lessons learned from his previous project, ensuring both efficient performance and user-friendly navigation. This iteration aims to address past shortcomings while providing a platform for ongoing development and community feedback.
Easy Installation: A simple setup process allows users to get started with just a few terminal commands, streamlining the initial stages of building or contributing to the site.
Accessibility Focus: The creator encourages bug reports, particularly on accessibility, ensuring that user experience is a priority and that the site accommodates a diverse audience.
Community Engagement: Users are invited to contribute by reporting issues through the repository’s Issue tracker, fostering a collaborative environment for improving the website.
Performance Optimization: The site aims to address performance bottlenecks, enhancing loading times and overall user satisfaction, which is critical for retaining visitor interest.
Clear Contributing Guidelines: The website provides structured guidelines for reporting issues, making it straightforward for users to assist in improving the site's functionality.
Social Networking Integration: Links to various social media platforms help users connect with Eric W. Bailey across different channels, increasing engagement and accessibility.
Modern Technology: Utilization of Eleventy demonstrates a commitment to modern web technologies, ensuring the site is built on a robust and efficient framework.
11ty is a static site generator that allows developers to build fast, modern websites using HTML, Markdown, and other templating languages, without the need for a complex build system.
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
Gulp.js is an old but popular site building tool that automates various repetitive development tasks in web development, such as compiling Sass, minifying JavaScript, and optimizing images.
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.