When I migrated to jekyll, I also wanted to migrate all my comments. My site doesn’t have that many of them, so I thought it should have been a doddle to do it, and I was initially firmly set on using Disqus. It seemed simple, the embedded code interface didn’t look too bad within my new website’s design, and I didn’t care that much about the fact that it works only with javascript.

In a few months, ekynoxe will celebrate 10 years on the web! There won’t be that many celebrations, but for me, it is a great marker to show that I keep doing what I do best, and what I enjoy the most professionally: websites.

Over 10 years, ekynoxe went through several changes, both in function and in design, and it is now my professional showcase and point of contact for prospective clients. Here’s how it got here.

In December 2011, I got fed up with the Hammersmith council and TFL not rising up to take ownership of the Hammersmith bridge barriers being constantly broken. I was cycling to work through the bridge every day, and most of the time, the bus lane barriers would be broken, on the side of the road, if not dangling from their support.

Ellen needed a simple yet effective single page layout to launch her business as as self employed physiotherapist in the South West London area.

She had some initial ideas so this made the design phase quite quick. The logo was done from her original ideas that I have adapted.

We have also created business cards to go with the website using the wonderful Moo luxe cards

As there was no requirement to quickly update the site, I simply used a pure ruby application using sinatra. This makes this small site very fast and as her partner, easy to update for me!