{"id":3438,"date":"2018-07-26T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2021-05-06T21:27:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T01:27:57","slug":"new-patrickgillespie-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/new-patrickgillespie-com\/","title":{"rendered":"New patrickgillespie.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

2021 Update: I’ve since re-done the site again, when I get a chance I’ll write something up on it. The post below refers to an older design.<\/p>\n

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Another redesign, this time a good one, I swear! I decided to learn ReactJS<\/a>, and for my first project I redesigned my photography website, patrickgillespie.com<\/a><\/p>\n

My previous design was pretty bad, I guess no one had the heart to tell me. For this new one I studied several other designs and took elements I thought worked best. It’s simple, responsive, and the code<\/a> is up on github if anyone is looking for a portfolio template.<\/p>\n

patrickgillespie.com had been pretty dead for about a year, receiving an average of 2-3 visitors a week, probably bots. The domain was about to expire earlier this month, when I noticed a big uptick in visitors leading up to the expiration day (~20 a day). Were these other Patrick Gillespies eyeing the domain? Domain vultures looking to scoop up a site that was about to fall into the abyss? I guess I’ll never know.<\/p>\n

patorjk.com, on the other hand, has been alive and kicking, at least visitor wise. No one reads this blog, but the apps on the site see hundreds or thousands of visitors a day, making me feel sort of bad about neglecting the site. It’s like a rudderless ship that has somehow managed to successfully sail the ocean.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you’re reading this, I hope you enjoy the new portfolio site or at least find some use in the code. The most useful piece of it is probably the create-image.js script, which creates multiple sizes of a photo and extracts it’s exif data into a JavaScript object which the application can use.<\/p>\n\n\n

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2021 Update: I’ve since re-done the site again, when I get a chance I’ll write something up on it. The post below refers to an older design. *** Another redesign, this time a good one, I swear! I decided to learn ReactJS, and for my first project I redesigned my photography website, patrickgillespie.com My previous … Continue reading New patrickgillespie.com<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}