New Bowles website
Posted on 13 June, 2018
I've been working with the son over the past few weeks to update the Bowles website.
The previous site was built using a piece of software called RapidWeaver, and whilst it was definitely the correct tool to use at the time, I now know a lot more about websites design and much prefer to be able to 'get to the code'. Seeing as the old site really needed a refresh, I decided to use Gatsby as the basis of a complete re-build; this had the added benefits that:
- it's designed to help with automated production of 'blog pages', which are not something you ever want to by hand
- it's possible to set up a system so that you deploy by pushing changes to GitHub - no need for FTP sync
- I'd get to learn Gatsby!
Because I was planning on using GitHub as part of deployment I was able to get help from the son - I concentrated on building and styling the site, whilst he was able to transfer the news articles from the existing site and create markdown files that were needed for the new one.
All told it took nearly four weeks, but quite pleased with the result ...
New Bowles website design
