Welcome to my new portfolio website. My name is Arno and I’ve created this website to present myself, showcase my projects and publish my blogs. In this first blog I’ll go over all the pages of the website and what you can expect to see. I’ll also briefly cover how I’ve setup this website using Hugo and the Blowfish theme.
About Me #
First let me tell you about the About Me page. This page will basically function as my online resume. I’ve published my skills, experience, education and extracurrilar activities here and will keep updating them along the way. Beyond listing them I’ve also provided some background information on what my role exactly was and what I learned in that position.
On top of my resume this page also contains some personal information about my hobbies and interests. This way you will also get to learn a bit about me as a person. If your interested to read about me then head over to the About Me page.
About Me
Projects #
Secondly, the Projects page, this is where I showcase all the cool projects I’ve worked on. This includes both personal projects as well as those from my university courses. Most of them will be related to data science. Expect to see a wide range of topics, from ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and data exploration to visualization and machine learning. By reading about what I did in these projects and the challenges and problems I had to overcome you’ll get an idea of the experience I’ve gained and skills I’ve developed along the way.
Blog #
Lastly, there is the Blog page. Besides projects I will also use this website as a personal blog to publish any topics that interst me. This could be anything, from exploring a newly published machine learning model to letting out my thoughts on how to write your data science thesis. It is both a way for me to share my knowledge and experiences but also document my thoughts and explorations for later. This way I also hope to improve on my writing and data storytelling skills.
Static Website with Hugo and Blowfish #
Before this website I’ve had multiple portfolio websites that were made from scratch using HTML and CSS. They were never really looking finished and polished to a point where I was satisfied. This lead me to not really using them and just take them offline at some point. With this new website I decided to make it easier for myself by using a website building tool. I knew I didn’t want to use any no-code tools such as Wix or Squarespace as they don’t offer the flexibility I want and add unncessary costs. I wanted something that was free and lightweight. That’s how I ended on Static Site Generators (SSGs), the option between building from scratch with HTML and CSS or using a no-code tool. They are mostly free and easy to use. I picked Hugo as it’s the fastest and easiest to setup out of the popular options. After some exploring I then decided on using Blowfish as the theme for my website.
The Blowfish theme allowed me to easily create the pages I wanted. The theme has a minimalistic style which I was looking for and provides all the modern functionalities of a responsive website. Even features such as a dark mode and the option to add multiple languages are provided. The website also comes with a bunch of shortcodes that are not found or an extention of the Hugo shortcodes. These allow me to also easily add code snippets or interactive charts for example. Overall the theme has a lot of personalization and configuration options which made it a great choice.
To round of this first blog, I hope you’ve gotten an idea of what this website is all about and got you excited to explore a bit of my work.
Cheers, Arno