My Entry into the "Web Revival"

Hello! My name is Mystievous, or Mysti, and I have been putting off making my own website for far too long.

I have been doing web development professionally for almost 5 years now, so my original plan has been to use what I'd learned there and use a framework like Nuxt to make a professional-looking site, since I'm most comfortable working in Vue.

However, the other day I saw another video come across my youtube recommended from onionboots about personal websites, and it sparked something in me that has just really been wanting to go back to the barebones of website making, using (mostly) raw HTML, CSS, and some Javascript.

I've seen a couple videos about it over the last few years, but right now was sort of the perfect time for it to reach me again since I was in a good mindset to actually just sit down and do it!

So now here I am, making my first blog post ever!

While my original wish was to really use fully static files without any tools, I did decide instead on using a minimal static site generator (SSG) setup. Still pretty much writing HTML, just with the addition of having layouts and components which is a huge time saver!

After trying a few options, I landed on eleventy, and that is what I'm using right now. It's possible I will switch in the future, but for right now it works for what I need it to do, which is to be mostly transparent.

There's a lot of great resources I used to get this inital site setup! A lot of it is my own knowledge I've gained overtime, but 32bit.cafe has a great list of resources that I used to find the static site generators, some websites to review CSS, and much more!

I also appreciate the sites CSS Diner and Learn CSS Layout for providing great CSS tutorials/review that worked well for me, as I have honestly not written a ton of it myself in a while.

I'm still not entirely sure what I'm going to be putting here yet, but I'm sure I'll figure it out more as time goes on!