started in dec. 2024.
finished in may. 2025.
I’m someone that does a lot of things outside or inside school. I wanted a place where I could easily showcase the things I do in my life while also sharing my passion. I believe a website is the best thing I could make.
Even though computer science is not my favorite thing on earth, I always wanted to learn how to code. I tried learning alone several times before but let’s be honest: it didn’t work. I think I was trying to learn without having a clear goal: I always need to know why I’m doing something and what I want to achieve. But with this project, I had a clear goal in mind and learning how to code wasn’t a problem if I knew I would get what I wanted.
To be honest, the first time I started jekyll, I was…puzzled. this is what looks like the ruby installer ( the language):
and this is how the jekyll program looks like:
Yes, not very modern and stylish. But then, I used Visual Studio Code to code into a folder called my-website and created my own first website. It wasn’t very impressive though… It looked like a blank html page with nothing but a header and info about jekyll. It was terrible, both in design and structure. this was the first logo:
I continued working on this file for a few months, trying to raw build a website for hours until 3AM just to delete the functionality I passed the night on because I felt like I didn’t like it the morning after :).
I could spend entire days trying to make something work or creating a new sub-page just to change everything the day before. It was frustrating but at the end, it’s rewarding to see a finished website that suits exactly the vision I had. I learned a lot on the way but I think it was very positive.
I even used the existing files and my knowledge to build an entire website for a biology project, showcasing our group work on photosynthesis in less than a week ! It was a website that was built around us telling a story about photosynthesis and its utility in our world in the 2000s ish very kitch website. My teacher was really happy about this one :). You can maybe access it with this url: https://hosana-sacha.github.io/laphotosyntheseSVT/
Building this website isn't only a new ticked box on a piece of paper somewhere in my room called “projects”, it’s a real investment I made for myself. Developing this Web Application helped me gain several valuable skills, both from an engineering point of view and a personal point of view:
- coding a full personal Website from A to Z, including pages like portfolio, projects, blog and contact-me
- going through the process of getting my website published freely using Github
- using resources on the internet like in the uiverse.io website or using artificial intelligence.
- develop an attractive home page and general layout using different code languages: CSS, HTML ( to a lesser extent: JS and Ruby)
- using the learned skills in the immediate time by creating a meaningful website for a biology project.