Alexi Taylor Portfolio

A portfolio site built with Gatsby.

📝 Features

React Spring (Used for Parallax effect)
TailwindCSS & styled-components for styling
- Use the full power of TailwindCSS while generating small styles (as unused data gets deleted)
- Uses tailwind.macro (Babel macro) to have hot-reloading of Tailwind styles
SEO
- Schema.org JSONLD
- OpenGraph Tags
- Twitter Tags
Typefaces for quicker font loading
Offline Support
WebApp Manifest Support
Responsive images
- The right image size for every screen size
- Traced SVG Loading (Lazy-Loading)
- WebP Support

Please note: The parallax effect can be quite heavy for some older CPUs and the site uses some newer CSS features which will result in incompatibility with older browsers.

▶️ Getting Started

Running in development

npm run start

Building your site

npm run build

Copy the content of the public folder to your webhost or use a website like Netlify which automates that for you.

Adding new features/plugins

You can add other features by having a look at the official plugins page.

Configuration

You have multiple options to configure this project.

Use the config/website.js to configure data passed to the SEO component and other parts of the Gatsby site.
Use the tailwind.js file to configure TailwindCSS. Their documentation explains it step-by-step.
Modify the files in the src/styles directory.
Modify the sections in the src/views directory. They contain the Dividers & SVG icons.
You can also place the icons somewhere else on the page, modify their animation and hide them on smaller screens:

  <SVG icon="triangle" hideMobile width={48} stroke={colors.orange} left="10%" top="20%" />
  <SVG icon="hexa" width={48} stroke={colors.red} left="60%" top="70%" />
  <SVG icon="box" width={6} fill={colors['grey-darker']} left="60%" top="15%" />

For icon, you have the options: triangle, circle, arrowUp, upDown, box, hexa
If you want the SVG to be hidden on mobile view, add hideMobile to the SVG component
You can define the width via the TailwindCSS width option
The colors get defined via the TailwindCSS color option
- Please note that you will either have to define the color in stroke or fill depending on the icon. For reference, have a look at the currently used SVGs
The options left and top position the icon relatively to its parent container
You can also wrap the SVGs with <UpDown /> or <UpDownWide /> to animate them

Typography

Instead of relying on Google's CDN to host its fonts, this site self-hosts the fonts and therefore benefits from increased performance. The installed fonts can be found in src/components/Layout.jsx:

import 'typeface-cantata-one';
import 'typeface-open-sans';

This starter uses typefaces by Kyle Mathews. Have a look at the repository if you want to install & use other fonts.

You'll also need to configure fonts in tailwind.js to reflect the changes. You then can use the fonts with font-sans and font-serif.

alexitaylor / alexitaylor-portfolio