Giving this site another redesign

May 28, 2024
2 min read
This site has been around since 2003, and has been on various platforms, and has had many redesigns.
For the past two years, it's been using Directus as a headless CMS, and has been built in Astro and hosted on vercel for the past year.
This latest redesign is still in Astro, hosted on Vercel and using Directus as a headless CMS, so not much changed in that regard.
But what did change:
- Obviously the design has changed, although some areas still look the same such as the bookmarks page, but that will be changing shortly.
- Images are now using Astro's Image Service to take advantage of better performance, this combined with images being uploaded to Directus gives a better experience overall.
- I write all content on this site using Markdown. Previously I used Markdoc, which is great, but was a bit overkill in this case since I just do plain markdown, so instead, I am now using Marked, I may revisit Markdoc again down the road but right now, it's just not needed.