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2018-10-19

As a project to demonstrate my front-end design and development skills I made a UX wireframe of my website. Then used it as a mockup to code my own custom Wordpress Theme from scratch.

I learned a lot going through the process of designing and coding my own custom Wordpress theme.

Near the end of this process the bill for my Wordpress hosting came due. Paying to host a website that doesn't generate revenue became too expensive. Plus, everyday my Wordpress website firewall reported about 120+ hacking attempts.

For simplicity and peace of mind I decided to use Hexo the static site generator.

Now this site is being hosted on GitHub Pages and I'm using my GitHub repositories as my design and development portfolio. I can demonstrate the code I've written without the overhead and security issues associated with Wordpress.

I'm much happier with Hexo than I was with Wordpress.