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Personal website · Historical source from 2024

Original Portfolio

A few ideas worth keeping

This earlier site brought my projects and resume together with a gradient wordmark, animated navigation and day/night themes. You can still see the family resemblance.

Earlier mandalaw website with gradient lettering and illustrated profile artwork.
Earlier personal site · historical design

What I tried

It was a personal site with theme controls, animated navigation and a profile interface. I also experimented with authentication and contact UI. Those experiments helped me work through how the site should behave.

What stayed

The lowercase wordmark, personal imagery and day/night pairing still feel at home here. The current site carries them into a responsive layout with keyboard-accessible controls and a layered project deck.

What needed to change

The archive had unsafe client-side credential and profile-transfer behavior. The local recovery removed that behavior, replaced the broken contact form with email and cleaned up dead links. This page shows a historical image; it doesn’t run the old interface.

The useful part

It’s good to keep a record of earlier work. Some choices are worth developing, and others are better left in the archive. This site has room for both.