Over the past few months, I have engaged with personal applications in Laravel, successfully developing an automatic posting system from Telegram and a semi-automatic photo-posting service that uses Creative Commons images from Flickr to various social networks. I plan on discussing these projects in separate articles soon.
This accomplishment motivated me to consider renewing my website using a Laravel-based stack. My website hasn’t seen much change since I built it a decade ago using Joomla ZOO CCK. While I achieved everything I initially aspired to, the site remained inconvenient to manage and update content. Given the technological advances, having such a dated personal website is almost embarrassing, not to mention the language of the content.
However, due to time constraints and personal preferences, I’m not inclined to build a website from scratch on a new framework. I initially considered Winter CMS, but it didn’t suit my needs after familiarizing myself with it via videos and documentation. An ideal system for me is straightforward regarding
... show moreOver the past few months, I have engaged with personal applications in Laravel, successfully developing an automatic posting system from Telegram and a semi-automatic photo-posting service that uses Creative Commons images from Flickr to various social networks. I plan on discussing these projects in separate articles soon.
This accomplishment motivated me to consider renewing my website using a Laravel-based stack. My website hasn’t seen much change since I built it a decade ago using Joomla ZOO CCK. While I achieved everything I initially aspired to, the site remained inconvenient to manage and update content. Given the technological advances, having such a dated personal website is almost embarrassing, not to mention the language of the content.
However, due to time constraints and personal preferences, I’m not inclined to build a website from scratch on a new framework. I initially considered Winter CMS, but it didn’t suit my needs after familiarizing myself with it via videos and documentation. An ideal system for me is straightforward regarding installation and maintenance. I don’t wish to spend time remembering complex update procedures, which I will forget after six months.
In the past, I have also worked on a personal project using Drupal that necessitated a comprehensive understanding of the system and was complex to update. I attempted a standard update, which resulted in hours of troubleshooting and fixing, something I do daily at the job and wish to avoid in my free time when I aim to create new things and relax.
An episode of the phpUgly podcast piqued my interest in Twill CMS, and following some research, I subsequently found several Reddit recommendations for Filament. The extensive documentation and a pair of Laracast courses on Filament caught my attention.
I have subscribed to Laracast since last November and have completed both Filament courses. Filament contains numerous pre-developed components functional for web app creation. It’s a hybrid of a framework and a CMS, which is beneficial as I intend to incorporate some unconventional elements into my website. These additions necessitate numerous adjustments to a ready CMS. Nevertheless, I can tailor these from scratch using Filament while saving me from having to program standard components.
In the coming days, I will start developing my website on Filament and try to share my progress. In the meantime, I need to familiarize myself with the TALL stack that Filament is using. This new venture has made me realize that I may have missed many technological revelations in recent years while focusing on enhancing my soft skills, leadership, and management.
