Learning by building with Codex

Start with a page you can react to

This site began as a small experiment in using Codex to build a place for projects and notes. We got Astro running locally, then compared four treatments of the same About page. Seeing the options made the feedback more specific. I liked the existing type, the layout of one option and the dark palette of another.

Test the message as well as the design

The first design tried to connect product building, business growth and trail running. Seeing those three subjects together made me reconsider what the site should lead with. I decided to focus it on my professional work and give trail running its own home at Trailgeek. The homepage now pairs “Curious by nature. Learning by doing.” with “Connecting People. Building Products. Growing Businesses.”

Check the result before sharing it

The local preview let me make those decisions on a working page. I ran Astro’s checks and built the static site to verify that the pages compiled. Reviewing the page in the browser helped answer whether someone could tell what I do and where to go next. The next check is to see what a reader unfamiliar with my work takes away from the homepage.