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About this Website and its history

In this section I would like to dive a little deeper in the technologies that are used to make this website a reality.
We'll also discuss some of the challanges that I have come across and how these got resolved (or not). I'd also like to show you some of the future features I am looking to add over time. As with most other sections of this website, this will be a living place where new content will be added, so hopefully we will see some future plans to become challanges to be overcome and finally functioning features of this web site.




Why this website

Since 2023 I have been working with a team that has its focus on building, managing and streamlining the Azure corporate environments. This involves code management via Azure DevOps VScode and GIT, Terraform code for IaC based resources, powershell scripts, Agile Project Management Processes and a lot more.
Coming from a traditional network and security background this was a steep learning curve for me. So, while preparing for my Az900 certifacation I wanted to work with the resources discussed in the exam first hand and I created my own Azure (playground) tenancy.
While playing around I went into many rabbit holes with a lot of new concepts and technologies, I realized I know little about. So I thought the best way to get a proper understanding of these is to bring it all together and build some actually useful resources. An obvious first step would be a simpler Azure Web App that could be used to host some webcontent.
But what web content? Maybe I could track all the things I learned along the way and use it as a sort of portfolio for the future. It could become an extensive version of my CV.
Well... that would also mean I would need to refresh my knowldge of basic HTML coding. To make it look a little pretty I would also need to learn CSS. I came across some great free tutorials online and deviced to build my website on this simple and functional one.
I previously also tried another one, but that quickly got too deep into CSS design elements that caused too many headaches for me but you can see the results here.


I want to call out that the entire site is written by hand in VScode and so far no website design tool was used. A special challange was to also make this website responsive, so that it can be viewed from a mobile device. So please, do check it out from your phone as well.


Future plans for this website

Now, that I have gotten a taste of the basic technologies of setting up a website I want to keep working on it and add new functionalities and sections.
For example I want to look at a members section that can be accessed via local credentials. Maybe some API integration with external services and some more Javascript.