Rebuilding the About Me section

This weekend, I have begun to rebuild the About Me section. I have rebuilt the templates for My Work and created new pages and a new database for My Employments. I have wanted to do this for a while, and as I was toying with a new way to present things by grouping by year with different colors, I started the transformation today.

This started a few weeks ago as I was just toying with the idea of grouping things based on year. I have wanted to do that for a while, but never had the energy to dig into it. Now that I can get some assistance from AI, these things are a lot easier. So I tinkered with it a while back and got the basics down fairly quickly. I also started to look into the structure because I never liked having Employment and Projects in the same database.

So, this weekend I started to look into this for real, and I took the new database for Employment for a spin to see what I could come up with. As of right now, I have a fairly decent embryo, but I need to align the fields a bit and rebuild a few things. For example, the linked content is not looking the way I want them, so I want to rebuild the templates to present those links a bit better. I also see that I want to add a little company data to the entries to give a little more context, so I will give some love to the Companies database as well.

Where I previously had one database with two types of entries (projects and employments), I have now split this into two database and I have added two new pages. One page is for the My Work landing page, which I will build soon. It will just be a little landing page, so not a massive part of the work. The second page is Contract Me, which is a little play on words for a contact page, basically. The page will have links to how you can get in touch with me if you want to discuss hiring my services.

For My Employment, I am now rebuilding them and setting up the content. I am fairly happy about the way it looks now, with the super simple design. I still need to add the company information, so for now, I am just adding a logo and some text while I figure out the Company database. I have played around a bit with comments, as I do not really see any reason to allow comments on employments. Instead, I have added them to the Notes section, which can be a fun way to add small notes. I have also added blog entries there in case I write a blogpost here about work. These are only available for logged-in users, and I might hide more areas for people who are not logged in, but I have not decided yet.

For My Projects (renamed from My Work), I am just starting to align the fields and adjust the templates so they can work with both databases. I want to have the listing a bit differently here, and the way the projects were defined before needs some adjustments.

I am also restructuring the profiles, and I may redo their design later, but for now, I'll let them stay as they are.

Overall, I am having fun rebuilding these sections. The boring part is that I have add information now for every employment and every project, but I'll live 😁