I recently had to move the Taboola Rasa website away from Squarespace on short notice. So I decided to ditch the website builders and build it myself. I used Jekyll with an easy-to-use theme to build a bare-bones version of the site and GitHub Pages to publish it. I decided not to mess around with a remote theme, so I coded the entire thing on GitHub. It’s not necessarily a method I’d use again because you have to commit every little thing to see whether it worked and then wait for it to deploy, which takes time. But it was a good quick-and-dirty method to get the website up by the time the Squarespace sub expired.

I originally only wanted to get a temporary “under construction” site up while working with a friend to build the website (on Twitch live streams!). But then I found it easy enough to do more, I got curious, and I got into it. So I decided to try and rebuild a fuller version of it myself. I’m a beginner when it comes to coding, so, of course, I had some help from dev friends when I got stuck. But I did most of it myself and really enjoyed myself. I also learned a lot, including asking for help when I get stuck.