Reflections: Lessons From My First Website

I can’t help but chuckle a little bit whenever I look at the first website I ever developed or at least what is left of it. To say it was unrefined, rough and crude is sort of an understatement. However, looking at the kind of projects I have made overtime and comparing it to that first website it is evident that I have progressed. Started from the bottom, now we are here kinda thing.

I made that website for a 2^nd year unit and at the time I was indeed very proud of the outcome considering I had no prior knowledge in web development. Computers were solely for music and movies and the occasional word document assignments at that point in my life. However, with a little persistence and a bunch of help from some good friends of mine, I managed to produce something.

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Isn’t it amazing how one little function can change your entire life? Your code life that is. Just the other day I was bombarded with a lot of content on this site that I was working on. I am talking about almost 50 pages worth of information. Having worked as a content developer for over one year means I know what is involved in the process. So I am still in awe at how my client managed to come up with all that…

Anyway, back to my 'story'. So I was left contemplating exactly how I was required to make all those pages for this one website! That site would be so heavy. All those pages would probably take it ages to load on devices. Then again, I couldn’t just squash all that information on one single page because that would lead to one which is about 400 meters long! Trust me guys, I am not exaggerating!