Problem

When I was designing AikoWeb 4.0 I really want it to have a dynamic content. (Meaning that the content and the code stays separated) for my projects and art. I ended up just doing it raw. For projects I have a JSON list of things inside the code and for arts I have it link to a file server I hosted. I was going to make a dashboard so that I could modify the content myself but I never got around to it.

CMS

Fast forward to a few days ago as of writing this (Today is August 24nd, 2023) I thought about having a content management service while I was eating food and it hit me. I did not need to make a custom dashboard when I could already use existing content management system (referred to as CMS from now on) like Strapi, Ghost, Drupal, Wordpress or whatnot to help me manage the content and the bonus is that I don’t need to transfer content when I make a newer version of my website since I could just use the CMS all the way through.

Moving Forward

This blog post was meant to be a test to how I could utilise CMS but I needed to write something from scratch so I decided to make it an actual blog post. I will have to make a new website in the future to support this.

Special Thanks

Special thanks to pprmint. for helping me with many things with desiging a new website which is work in progress as of writing this.

But that is not the end of the story…

Fast forward 3 months, I have basically made myself a new website. I finally managed to connect backend. I will continue this on the next blog post.