MERTCAN AKARDERE

Website Design with Gatsby

October 6th 2019

Aim of the Project

This website has been my challenge to learn industry standard web design tools as my prior knowledge was on PHP.

Since my portfolio is a static webpage, I decided to use Gatsby for performance. Gatsby is powered by React, HTML, SASS and GraphQL. So I learnt some transferable skills.

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Features

Gatsby meets most progressive web app(PWA) requirements out of the box. PWAs have potential to be standard for start-ups for ease of user experience and cross-platform development(1) that is pivotal in a market that introduces new platforms and demands updates regularly.

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Good practices of web design are implemented to this site as I learn them. I use site metadata and helmet to keep the data centralized and keep the page speed high(2). I use Cloudinary as my CDN.

References:

(1) https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps

(2) https://moz.com/learn/seo/page-speed