Portfolio Website v1 was my original personal portfolio, built in 2016 with Node.js and the Ghost platform. It combined a personal website with a blog-style content system and was the first proper version of my online portfolio.

The first version

This was the starting point for having my own place online: a site where I could present projects, publish content, and experiment with running a real web platform instead of only building static pages.

Built with Ghost

Ghost was a good fit at the time because it gave the project a ready-made publishing experience, content management, themes, routing, and a Node.js foundation. It let me focus on shaping the website and content instead of building every CMS feature from scratch.

Why it matters

Even though this version is no longer live, it was the foundation for everything that came after. The later Gatsby and Next.js versions grew from the same idea: keeping a personal website that I own, can improve over time, and can use to show real projects instead of just listing them.