💻 Radickal Creations
The portfolio website for David Radick and the RKC brand.
# Task
As a technology professional, it's important to have a home for my own web presence. This is the need that radickalcreations.com serves to fill.
# Solution
You're looking at the solution now! In order to focus more on my projects, but still wanting granular control of my website, I chose to find a template that utilized the 11ty static site generator. The template I started with is Fernfolio by Tyler M. Roderick. This was chosen for its clean, professional appearance, having a responsive layout, and its use of SASS for styling.
# Modifications
A number of changes were made to the template to suit my needs and improve the UX.
- Updated all files to use module ESM imports vs the existing CommonJS requires.
- Fix templating issues caused by breaking changes in 11ty.
- Removed integration with Netlify.
- Ensure accessibility with color contrasts in various locations within the theme, primarily the dark-mode.
- Made the dark-mode theme button visible in the mobile responsive size.
- Changes to the navigation in the mobile menu drawer.
- Increased the clickable area of the nav links beyond just the text.
- Better alignment of the opening menu button and the closing "X".