Hi, my name is Donald and I’m a twenty-something-year-old Canadian web developer and digital content creator. I was born and raised in Victoria, BC and now reside in Nanaimo, BC.
Since 2013 I have been maintaining my website and portfolio and changing the content and its technologies. The website has been powered by Content Management Systems such as Webs, Weebly, SquareSpace, WordPress, and other CMS’ to then in 2017 I transitioned the website and hand-coded my own CMS for the website with HTML, CSS, and PHP OPP (Object-Oriented Programming) languages.
Then today in 2022, I’m proud to announce that I have changed the website and the CMS to be hand-coded in the new modern JavaScript Framework of NextJS](https://nextjs.org/) by Vercel with a codebase of React and TypeScript 🎉.
With this new era, I'm able to create a higher-level website and even deploy it on a Vercel server. This change has allowed me to have a faster, smoother, more optimized website and portfolio, better templating, and so much more!
Even though I'm still optimizing and constructing features, I feel as, my website is loading faster and smoother!
- TypeScript: JavaScript Syntax
- NextJS App Router: Website Framework
- Vercel: Hosting Platform
- Chakra UI: CSS Framework
- Font Awesome / Font Awesome 6: Icons
- Clerk UPDATED: Auth Provider
- Supabase UPDATED: Postgresql Provider
- Cloudinary: Image Storage
- MDX: Markdown Blog Posts
- Formik: Form Provider
- yup: Form Validation
- Fontsource: Font Provider
If you would like to contribute to the production of the Donald Louch website, please feel free to fork this repository and create a PR. Or submit issues that you have found on the Issues Page or Discussions Page 😊
- Version 28.07.08: Upgraded Website Infrastructures, Updated User Interface (UI), Bug Fixes and More
- Version 28.06.01: Happy Pride Month!, Visual Updates, and more
- Version 28.03.18: Visual Updates, Sticky Bars, Bug Fixes, Backend Portal Updates, and more
- Version 28: Brand and Website Update 12/03/22
- Please feel free to read my in-depth change log for the February 22nd, 2022 (022222) changes, over on my Website.