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.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.After that still my thought was making the site more attractive and I had ideas for posts/articles. I was collecting stuffshttps://bobbydreamer.com/things-that-my-new-site-should-haveOne epiphany, what's the point of making the things attractive, if I dont continually add something. So I stopped everything I was doinghttps://bobbydreamer.com/epiphany-momentLooked into SSGs, picked Gatsby for speed they had some starter templates, picked the one from LekoArts started using it.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.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.https://bobbydreamer.com/how-i-made-this-siteWhat I use to make this site
1. Content in markdown(MDX)
2. Using firebase for hosting
3. GitHub as version control.