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Carl Topham

About this site

This is my personal website, and has been since I first built it as part of a university HTML module back in 2002. This is where I try out new technology and ideas before using them in the “real world”!

The site is currently a Next.js site built with TypeScript, hosted on Vercel.

  • Next.js App Router

    2024

    Next.js

    Built on Next.js, in TypeScript. Styled with MUI (V6). Content in Sanity. Hosted on Vercel.

    100% TypeScript. Fully using the App router, with i18n and revalidating tagged content

    • Next.js Next.js
    • TypeScript TypeScript
    • Material UI (MUI) MUI (Material UI)
    • Sanity CMS Sanity CMS
    • i18n i18n

  • Next.js

    2022

    Next.js

    Migrated the site to Next.js. Styled with TailWind and deployed on Netlify.

    Having previously migrated most of the site & components to TypeScript was a blessing. Whilst the migration to Next.js was complex, it was greatly aided by having components which "knew" what data they needed and would not build with errors!

    • Next.js Next.js
    • JavaScript JavaScript
    • TypeScript TypeScript
    • Tailwind Tailwind
    • Netlify Netlify

  • TypeScript

    2021

    TypeScript

    Migrated all components, sites and utils to use TypeScript. Only a few remnants of JavaScript remain.

    • TypeScript TypeScript

  • The Jam (stack)

    2020

    Gatsby

    Built on Gatsby. Styled with Bootstrap. Hosted on Netlify

    • Gatsby Gatsby
    • Bootstrap BootStrap
    • Netlify Netlify

  • Wagtail CMS

    2014

    Wagtail

    Moved to using Django Wagtail as a more fully fledged CMS

    • Django Django

  • Django all the way

    2012

    Django

    Moved to a Django / Postgres based site. Sass to style. Hosted on a VPC

    • Django Django
    • SCSS SCSS / Sass

  • WordPress

    2009

    WordPress

    Moved over to WordPress and started to work with themes & plugins. Styled using CSS

    • WordPress WordPress
    • CSS CSS

  • PHP

    2007

    PHP

    Sometime around here I started to toy with PHP & MySQL to make some basic database driven websites. I'm being vague here, because it was a long time ago!

    • PHP PHP
    • MySQL

  • Macromedia Shockwave

    2004

    Macromedia

    I'd used shockwave in university and it was deployable to the web so I started using it to create interactive content.

  • The OG

    2001

    HTML

    Long long ago in a... University course I built my first web page. This was my first forray in to web development. Built during a web module of my university course, where we learned HTML, and at that time frames, image maps and using table layouts. A lot has changed since then, but this was the code that got my passion for web development started.

    • HTML