Yaqin

Add more projects to the projects.html file.
Actually fill in the personal interests interests.html file.
Add media to supplement index.html, projects.html, interests.html.
[MAYBE] Remove google fonts API dependency, bundle fonts with the website in the site directory.
[MAYBE] Improve consistency in implementation of features

Release 1.0: Content complete!!!!!!!!
Beta 1.10: Big feature release, massive improvements to responsive layout, massive improvements to mobile layout and desktop layout with conditional formatting media queries. Improved common user flows. Added developer mode (allowing for site versions in the future) Improve usage of whitespace and vertical space, especially with nav-bar and page shortcuts.
Beta 1.9: Big feature release, changing layout from details vertical scroll to using a "carousel-item" pseudo-horizontal scroll layout. Added some nice to haves.
Beta 1.8: Another massive codebase refactoring, using individual css files for each component, class names shortening, utilized more selector specificity, utilized more polymorphism. Fixed bugs with layout and font. Made entire site more consistently "responsive". Improved future code scalability. Changed background color. Reworked theming.
Beta 1.7: Massive codebase refactoring, future proofing, increased polymorphism, shortened class names, text pruning, readability improvements, bug fixes.
Beta 1.6: Implemented adaptive navigation bar with a dropdown menu for narrow screens.
Beta 1.5: Implemented updated navigation (scroll to top, collapseall, expandall, shortcuts [about, projects, interests, technical]).
Beta 1.4: Updated about.html, ready for primetime! Updated CV
Beta 1.3: Sanitizing site for upload to public repository (separating development repository from public).
Beta 1.2.1: Updated projects titles, interests titles and about sections.
Beta 1.2.0: Updated index.html landing page with a "For Employers" site map/shortcuts section
Beta 1.2.0: Updated Projects.html with first 3 largest projects.
Beta 1.1.0: Added unformatted about.html sections "degree summary" and "skills list"
Beta 1.0.1: Updated CV.
Beta 1.0: First version of the website, Index.html landing page has projects and interests summaries, contacts and CV page implemented.
Alpha 1.0: Responsive UI framework implemented, file structure created.

"Stack" Choice

I am using OVH as a cloud provider because they offer the best price/month for the specifications that I need. I initially used AWS EC2 but the flexible pricing model actually turned out to be more expensive once I extrapolated expected costs long term.

I was pretty sure that I was going to use Ubuntu 22 LTS for the server's operating system because I was familiar with the Debian/Ubuntu family of distros and it is the most well documented distro which meant that there would be plenty of guides/tutorials written with it in mind.

I had a pretty strong inkling that I was going to use apache as the webserver for the my website. Nevertheless, I also looked at other options such as nginx, but decided that I didn't need the extra performance or scalability yet, and would be better off with the better documented apache ecosystem.

Domain Name

I knew that you could buy domain names from a bunch of different providers, I decided to look around a bit and I found a few good options. I eventually settled on AWS route 53 because the Name Servers would be well distributed geographically, it included WHOIS lookup protection, and I was already familiar with the AWS console.

HTTPS

I initially used an OVH SSL gateway to enable HTTPS on my website. However, I eventually scaled up to use virtual hosts so that I can host more than one website/domain on this server, which meant that I needed a HTTPS solution that supported that. I found certbot, which generates and renews SSL certificates from "Let's Encrypt" and would meet this requirement.