Old Portfolio

After finishing university I created a portfolio website to show off all the projects I'd completed as part of my course, including my master's research paper. I created it in part to help get a job, and also to practice skills I'd learnt on my course. At the time, my frontend skills were weak, but I was proficient in Python and wanted to create a static set of HTML pages so I could host for free on Github pages. This led naturally to the choice of Jinja templates, which I drove with a custom JSON structure and my own parsing logic to generate HTML. Looking back, this feels like a hacky way of achieving what can be done much simpler with modern frontend frameworks, but I still feel it's worth having around as a record of some interesting university projects and as a comparison of how I've improved since.

Objectives

• 00

  Create a record of interesting university projects
• 01

  Experiment with a 'Hero-Banner' landing page
• 02

  Implement searching/filtering using a system of coloured pills for technologies and project types
• 03

  Create a set of custom Jinja templates (i.e components) for common things like image carousels, videos, PDF embeddings and tabs
• 04

  Implement parsing logic for custom JSON structure to drive the layout of pages from data

Images

Home page

Projects page with filters