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Nothing on the internet is ever truly permanent, but also nothing on the internet is ever truly gone. This site is always in flux and I tend to completely redo it on a semi-regular basis. Whenever I make a major change to the look of the site, I'll link the archived version here.

August 2022 — March 2023

The very first website I ever coded (and it kind of showed). I somehow managed to make the navigation sidebar stick to the top completely on accident, which I thought was very cool. Unfortunately I wasn't yet familiar with the types of features that are actually reasonable to implement on a static site, so I was getting very ambitious with the site structure in a way that made it difficult to update. Because of this, there was very little actual content on the site at this stage, and I quickly abandoned it once my life got too busy.

March 2023 — May 2023

Coming back after a protracted absence, the site got a complete redo. I unfortunately ended up ditching the sticky sidebar in favor of making the site responsive (prior to this it was not mobile-friendly at all), but the design stayed overall the same otherwise. I decided on a different way to do the file structure, but didn't actually end up doing much with it in this short-lived blue period.

May 2023 — July 2025

This version was really just a new coat of paint on the existing site structure. Not much about the actual HTML code changed between this version and the last; the CSS got updated with new borders and an animated background, and at one point I figured out how to add more sections to the navigation sidebar which was a neat feature. I really liked the new look— there's a reason this is the longest-lived version so far, but eventually it just didn't feel like me anymore and I wanted something new.

July 2025 — July 2026

I decided to completely overhaul the site in 2025, giving it a completely new color scheme and design. I taught myself how to use CSS flexbox for this, and tried to make some changes that would make it easier to update the site with new material in hopes that I would update it more often. That... didn't really work, and while I did like the layout I started to feel like it seemed a bit flat and impersonal— like it lacked some of the personal charm I see on other people's sites. While I might revive this design for a professional website in the future, it's not something I wanted to keep on a site I'm making just for fun.