Built a simple, maintainable website for a family friend, modernising a 15+ year-old site that lacked HTTPS while keeping the publishing flow simple.
Project notes
- Kept the stack deliberately lightweight - plain HTML, CSS, and a sprinkle of JavaScript - so non-technical maintainers can edit content.
- Integrated Google’s Programmable Search Engine and added cross-tab keyword highlighting to make journal entries searchable.
- Set up an automated deployment pipeline to streamline journal updates and reduce maintenance overhead of manual file uploads.
- Provided training in VS Code and GitHub for the journal maintainers.
- Fixed very outdated sitemaps and used Google Search Console to index site content better, to power the search functionality of the site.
- Contributed enhancements to their newly rebuilt main site, such as a scrolling header banner.