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+++ title = "Site design and metamodel" summary = "Decisions I've made while building this website." updated = 2024-11-16 toc = true +++
Distinction between "personal website" and "person"
Early in the development cycle of this website, I initially made no real distinction between myself and my site. For most intents and purposes, I was trwnh.com -- and with that, certain design decisions fell into place:
Why I removed the site header, and why I later added it back.
I wanted no site header or site footer at first. This was partly due to not knowing what to put in there (making them be empty and therefore unnecessary), and partly due to wanting the focus to be entirely on the content itself, which was the main subject of the page.
My thinking around this changed when I started to toy around with and consider the possibility that, even though this is a personal site, I might want to identify or refer to the site separately from myself. In some ways, this makes the site less "personal", or at least, it feels that way. It feels like drawing that distinction makes the website feel more "generic", like it could be repurposed for something else that wasn't me or about me, and it would mostly continue to work just fine.