Do you develop your own site or have someone else do it? What things do you desire in a website?

I am a full stack developer and I am thinking about building up my personal/freelance portfolio to make a few bucks on the side. I would also be open to exchanging web development for graphics/music.

Since it is my personal site/company I cant post my day job work on it making the portfolio really old. It is the first two websites I ever built.

Do you guys have preferences for a particular CMS like wordpress or drupal? or particular features? Is web development even desired or do you guys do it yourselves?

My personal site that needs to be re done. yamiko.ninja

A few sites I worked on at my day job in the past year
http://bonsaimirai.com/
http://paclamp.com/
http://www.seattlecityclub.org/
http://element-residential.com/

 

One of the guys here seems to work on his own site using Wix:

http://logan22631.wix.com/netherboss

Of course, there's also Dreamweaver and SeaMonkey for more advanced web design.

Also, how did you come up with the name Yamiko?

And, if you don't mind me asking, what web hosting company are you using?

Thanks.

 

Those WYSIWYG tools to assist with building websites make more of a mess than they are worth. I wouldn't consider anything they could produce advanced in the slightest.

 

Personally I like Wordpress or even just static HTML sites.

 

I took the easy way out for my site (www.gamedzine.com) and installed joomla and bought a theme from RocketThemes. I can do web design but would rather spend my time on other things. When it comes to creating content for the site using a WYSIWYG editor is the default option, but I generally switch to a plain text editor and write my own HTML for individual articles, with a bit of inline CSS if I need to change the default style.

 

I just started updating my wordpress site yesterday to get more game related and art related stuff. Compared to DreamWeaver which made me want to pull my hair out it was a charm. I used to have full Flash driven sites for my portfolios, music and writings as I could control the layout down to the pixel. DW.. You would finally get something in place, add something else and he effing thing would mess up with two pixels off here, four pixels off there, something shunted down the height of the image added instead of staying in lie.

 

Wix didn't have good backwards compatibility before but that was when they were using flash.

Personally I am against tools like dreamweaver and seamonkey. These tools are not used that much by professional web developers. We usually use IDEs like netbeans, webstorm, phpstorm, eclipse etc. Some use text editors and fewer use vim. But if you get what you want there is no reason to change

I am a full stack so I can manage a server and do my own hosting. I am using digital ocean for the server and managing it with headless puppet.

I am not a pro at sysadmin but I am good enough to manage PHP servers. Mine is Centos07 with PHP 5.6 and MySQL 5.6. It has a varnish caching layer and nginx reverse proxy that can handle SSL with spdy.

I just started hosting a co-workers Drupal site and am charging him $15/month. he was unhappy with his previous host.

Is hosting more desired than web development? I have been planning on possible doing hosting as well once I fix some more bugs with my puppet code.

 

From your comments I guess there isn't much of a market for it. What about hosting? Do you guys like who you host with or do you want to spend a little bit more ($10-20/month) for a server that is more custom?

 

I am a fan of anime and some would say obsessed with japanese culture. I never been to japan, a convention or cosplay so I don't think I am obsessed but back to the point.

Yami = darkness, bewilderment, despair, hopelessness
ko = child and was common to add at the end of names

ko is usually used if someone is born during an event or named after there parents. For example if you were born on the peach festival your parents might call you momoko. If your moms name is aki you might be named akiko. names that end with ko are often considered more feminine.

My logo is a phoenix which represents rebirth in the western culture. In Asia it is associated with the fire, south, the empress and goodwill, fortune, knowledge.