This website is one that I coded from scratch using HTML and CSS program code. It is a continuing project, and as I expand my artwork and the website, I learn more about web development. Coding your own website is a fun project to try, and it is quite doable especially if the main intent of your site is to display images of your artwork and provide contact information. This could be useful for sharing your creations with friends and family, or if you are a student who is applying to art school and would like to create an online portfolio. HTML and CSS are both very beginner friendly – HTML gives you the basic structure of the website with depicting images and text. CSS is the style sheet that tells the HTML code how to look pretty with different margins, font styles, and colors. There are many fun template website services that make it easy to add other features like a shop that some beginning programmers may want assistance with. I really like that coding my own site means that the format that I use is only limited by what I can learn.

[UPDATE JULY 23, 2025: THE BLOG PORTION OF THIS SITE NOW USES A WORDPRESS PLUG-IN AND IS NO LONGER POWERED SOLELY BY HTML / CSS CODE]