This site uses Astro Sienna, a theme designed by Anjay Goel.
Among all the themes I explored while looking for a way to bring my personal website into existence, Astro Sienna is the one I liked the most. I am genuinely happy to have found a theme that feels so visually coherent while remaining simple and understandable. The color scheme, the little animations, the typography, the overall visual appeal, and the simplicity of the codebase all appealed to me.
I really appreciate Anjay for creating something like this and publishing it under the MIT License.
However, I wanted some modifications. Since I am not a web-development person, these were generously made by a friend of mine, Ayush Soni. There are some easy ones, and I made them myself.
Below is a list of the changes made to this site, along with the commit where each change was introduced.
| # | Change | Commit | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A menu named “Site Credits” is added to the navbar to acknowledge the people behind this website. | f03c9e2a | Ankur |
| 2 | A “WELCOME” is added in the Home page. | 65023f72 | Ankur |
| 3 | Remove RSS both in the home page and footer. | 2daeec1c | Ayush |
| 4 | An option to add the photograph of the author in the About section. It is not mandatory. | d6442049, 02f36499 | Ayush, Ankur |
| 5 | Text in a blockquote is italic by default. That didn’t appealed much to me. Now the text is normal and bold/italics is optional. | d460abcd | Ayush |
| 6 | A timeline and duration (in days) calculated from the timeline is added to showcase. | 93f3e543, 9d381f6e, e073815a | Ayush, Ankur |
| 7 | Changed the first letter in posts from big to normal. | 48ecfdaa | Ayush |
| 8 | The space between words was quite less, so changed that. | 382f3be8 | Ayush |
| 9 | Support for draft pages so that I don’t have to maintain a separate directory for drafts. | 6189f2ce | Ayush |
| 10 | A CSS rendering issue in the site-credits page that doesn’t render tables and blockquote properly. | aa083d37, | Ayush |
| 11 | Added a command in package.json to clean the stuff built by build and updated dev and build commands to run it. | b45f79f2 | Ankur |
| 12 | Renamed build to build_prod_site and preview to check_prod_site. It’s a better naming for me. Introduced a new command prod that combines the previous two commands. | bb3ab0b3, 8d145a47, 57952762 | Ankur |
| 14 | Remove newline from lists in blockquotes. | 314c339e |
You can check out their work here:
Anjay Goel
Ayush Soni
This page exists simply to acknowledge the people whose work made this site possible, and to make clear which parts of it are original and which have been changed for my use.
Thank you.