Welcome to VEX.blue 3.0
It's been a minute since I create an article let alone a website update article, so there's a few things to go over as you can probably see from obviously using the site previously we've had a little bit of a overhaul in the UI of the navigation bar along with different sections of the website being slimmed down and made uniform making it easy to navigate across different parts of the site such as the Podcasting or Video Editing the basics of the page looks similar.
So how is the site different in v3.0 other than just looks? -- Well simply we've moved away from the simple HTML, CSS and JavaScript system that we where originally using, originally I was thinking about moving across to PHP and really tried to move across but ended up moving to React Instead. This means that updates to the website can be done a lot better, especially over time as I improve the way I format the pages and how each article, product or service type is displayed allowing for easy updates in the future, especially when it comes to changing the footer or navigation bar.
The other befit of moving over to React is that I will be able to create a back-end for the website in the future allowing for people to login to the site to see previous orders, the ability to have a full functional store (when I work out the code) along with being able to have things like Reviews, comments on articles along with just much more functionality in the whole site.
The advantage of learning react is that I will be able to get further into web development and even develop applications that I've rather always wanted to see or just simply want different features that platforms offer in the current market. The other advantage of learning these sorts of things are that I will be able to create websites for other people and have the full protection and functionality a modern website can have, as coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript alone doesn't really bring much security to your code.
Will there ever be a v4.0? -- Possibly, I will never say that I won't rebuild the whole website all over again as obviously there's always new frameworks along with the internet is always changing, even in the smallest amount of ways. A version v4.0 is currently not being thought about as I see not many other ways to push the website further than the point I've put it into right now, the only thing that I can see that I will be developing and trying to understand over time is obviously the back-end side of the website.
What is the future of VEX.blue's site then? -- Even know I'd love to say I have millions of ideas of what we can do with the site, I simply don't. There's obviously a few 'pipe-dreams' I have for the site's future and maybe some of them might come true, moving to a better code-base did but as of the moment I just want to see what I can do with expanding the products, slowly creating a back-end for users to have accounts as well as have functionality with them. Finally, I want to just push for the company to grow bigger, it's the only reason i learnt to code the website in the first place as I didn't want to pay for something like Wix.
So what do you think of the site? Sadly as of writing this there's no comments but feel free to contact us through Discord @VEX.blue