A basic version of my professional website is out!

I worked super duper late on Saturday night to get the technical work done for it, adding small bells and whistles on the already pretty mature template out. There were a few minor and major bugs, I added a new feature, and it was all set. Yesterday, the Sunday, I posted two articles in there, to get a sense of how much of a work it is, how much times it takes to get one post out, and figure out points of optimization. The first article took about 40 minutes to edit, adjust, get the photos in, and post on the website. The second one was quite a bit quicker at 25 minutes. I can see how the task could be pared down to 10-20 minutes when I get on a regular schedule. Most of the work involved editing the articles anyway, as I'd pushed back on the content micromanagement to get the bulk of the writing work out.

It's a big deal because now I can get the entirety of the website, including all the articles I've written, out in a week or two. This is great because the quicker I get 'em out, the quicker I can start iterating on the article editing part as well as the technical aspects, and once I'm comfortable enough with 'v1' of the site, can work towards further versions.

And again, the actual work of posting on the website, organizing and getting the photos etc would probably be quite quick if it were not for the unedited junk that remains in my unpublished notes that needs to be modified significantly to match my voice and intention. So it's not as much a matter of 'posting' to the website as it is of editing and making it ready for public consumption. It's a good problem to have. Thinking of putting a barebones version out ASAP, even with poorly edited weird-reading articles, and then coming back to edit later on, because otherwise this could be another barrier to publishing the website.