Building a personal website in 2021
Content is king actually that keeps the site going. Even if you have a personal site and only users are 10 bots and 20 random users.<p>First website I had made is in 2007 it was full flash site. It was pretty much decent and hosted it on bravehost. After hosting it, I was done, didn't do anything much. Ten years later 2017 I upgraded my site it was full handmade with css and it had lots of things planned but again after 5 posts didn't touch much.<p>After that still my thought was making the site more attractive and I had ideas for posts/articles. I was collecting stuffs<p><a href="https://bobbydreamer.com/things-that-my-new-site-should-have" rel="nofollow">https://bobbydreamer.com/things-that-my-new-site-should-have</a><p>One epiphany, what's the point of making the things attractive, if I dont continually add something. So I stopped everything I was doing<p><a href="https://bobbydreamer.com/epiphany-moment" rel="nofollow">https://bobbydreamer.com/epiphany-moment</a><p>Looked into SSGs, picked Gatsby for speed they had some starter templates, picked the one from LekoArts started using it.<p>I had read fantastic blog posts from certain people from HackerNews but they had only one or two posts with the depth they had in their posts, I wish they had written more.<p>Looking at all of that consistency is the key. Here I have noted down the steps on how I did it and I follow it to add posts mostly once a month.<p><a href="https://bobbydreamer.com/how-i-made-this-site" rel="nofollow">https://bobbydreamer.com/how-i-made-this-site</a><p>What I use to make this site
1. Content in markdown(MDX)
2. Using firebase for hosting
3. GitHub as version control.