2026-11-08

Moving off Adobe Portfolio

My old site ran on Adobe Portfolio, and that service is shutting down. So I rebuilt the site from scratch.

How it's built now

• The pages are plain HTML, built with Eleventy from a folder of Markdown files.
• The code lives in a private GitHub repo.
• Netlify builds and hosts it. Every time I push a change, the site updates by itself.
• The domain stayed where it was. I bought it through Google Domains back in 2019, and it moved to Squarespace when Google sold that business.

What went wrong

While pointing the domain at Netlify, I deleted the old DNS records before adding the new ones. The site went dark for a while. Nothing was lost, since the domain itself can't be deleted from that screen, but it was a good reminder to add first and delete second.

The look

I wanted it to feel like a VFX stage, so the accent color is greenscreen green, and the faint crosses behind the page titles are tracking markers. The home page fits on one screen, so people see the work without scrolling.