markus​toivonen.fi

• background

  • image gallery website
  • low-effort maintenance and content uploads
  • open-ended design

• implementation

  • initial design with figma
  • nextjs, directus, hetzner

• learnings

  • optimizing semi-static content
  • minimizing ongoing costs

I had long been trying to create a personal website, but that had never come to fruition due to scope creeps, premature optimizations, procrastination and other similar novel problems.

With all the staying home due to COVID-19, I wanted to work on some projects that I’d been procrastinating on for a long time, such as a personal website. What better way then to start a project than to dive in to completely another one, a personal website for a friend :)

Markus had long been the go-to guy for photographing most of the events of our student guild, Inkubio, and recently had also been