Soroush Javidi

I never thought I'd get to write this on my personal website, but I finally am! I'm talking about this very website. I've been planning to have my own website for, let's just say, a few years but never went ahead with it. But in January, I finally started to think seriously about this, and 5 months later (too long) and sorou.sh is released.

I wanted to host this on a Virtual Private Server (VPS), which would give me full control of the server, but it also meant that I had to spend some time learning the ropes and getting things ready. I then thought about content and the website elements followed by the design, which I wanted to have a simple but unique look.

Creating and implementing the design didn't take as long as it took to configure and fine-tune my content management system (CMS) Drupal. Drupal is very powerful and flexible, and while it works great out of the box, you need to spend some time to get things more customised.

I also spent some time implementing the portfolio section of the website, which was an interesting experiment with Drupal. I'll hopefully write about that some other time.

The important thing is that it's all done now! Well, I think I'll find things to tweak and perfect, there's always something!