Last week I launched my new professional website to advertise myself as freelance software developer or as contributor to open source projects.

I decided to phase out Wordpress due to three reasons:

• my site was composed of a few static pages, no comments, no articles
• I’m too lazy to keep Wordpress up to date (at least to fix security issues)
• I’d like to present my self in an original manner

My idea was to design my professional website as a presentation so I started searching for a slide-engine with the following capabilities:

• easy to setup
• HTML5 compliant
• coming with some nice built-in themes
• nice-looking on mobile devices

Reveal.js was the answer!

After a rapid prototyping of the required sections of the site, I could set up my new website in a couple of hours, just 10 lines of javascript and well structured HTML5 code

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Reveal.initialize({
  controls: true,
  progress: true,
  history: true,
  center: true,

  theme: Reveal.getQueryHash().theme,
  transition: Reveal.getQueryHash().transition || 'default',

  // Optional libraries used to extend on reveal.js
  dependencies: [
      { src: 'lib/js/classList.js', condition: function() { return !document.body.classList; } },
      { src: 'plugin/highlight/highlight.js', async: true, callback: function() { hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad(); } }
  ]
});

And here you are!!

Maybe it is still a bit spartan, but it is also effective and that was my first requirement.

If you have ideas or suggestions to improve it, don’t esistate to share, it’s still a work in progress…