After a number of years of not having the time to commit to consistent article writing, I've been inspired to take the time to re-launch my online presence.
To start with I had two websites/blogs setup;
- https://www.chriswinfieldblum.com was effectively my personal/professional blog, it had content mostly related to business including articles and details of my engagements
- https://www.winfieldblum.com was a technology experiment to explore Nuxt+Vue+Tailwind+Storyblok tech stack and, was showcasing my recent projects
Going forward it did not really make a lot of sense to maintain both sites but I wanted to take the best parts of both sites to consolidate into a single site to maintain (and be most consistent about it).
Here's a quick summary of the work that I have done to get this site up and running the way I wanted it to be;
- I took many of the design language from winfieldblum.com and tried my best to recreate it in WordPress
- I migrated all articles from chriswinfieldblum.com
- I migrated chriswinfieldblum.com "engagements" and consolidated them into the winfieldblum.com "projects"
- I created an "about" page that includes my journey thus far, outlining key life milestones and events
- I migrated chriswinfieldblum.com my professional profile and added it to my "about" page here
- I rewrote all of my "engagements" and "projects" after some self-reflection on each
- I create a "travel" page that is going to be my travel hub with details of my trips, travel tips and much more in the future
This is really my first time using the tools that I have helped to build while working at Thrive Themes. I wanted to try to take things a step further (i.e. not just use themes and templates) and I'm happy with how it's looking.
In short though the "tech stack" for my relaunched website includes;
- WordPress
- Thrive Theme Builder - for base theme and template customization
- Thrive Architect - for page and post content
- Duplicator Pro - for migration from staging to live as well as daily backups
- WP Mail SMTP - for site email deliverability (connected to Google)
- All In One SEO - for SEO optimization recommendations and tools
- WP Forms - for my contact form
I want this new site to be where I can publish my content and in the future some courses that I am planning to build and share across all of my passions; from business to family and everything in between.
Let me know what you think so far (or if you find bugs!)