I finally got around to putting my new company website online. I originally planned to do this sometime last year, but it just kept getting postponed for a variety of reasons. I'm pretty bad at graphic/web design so I had the design done by Ken Bekaert since I thought he had already done a great job on my logo and business cards. Next up was the slicing of the design to HTML and CSS. I could theoretically do that myself, but it would've taken me way too long and I would not have enjoyed it one bit, so I preferred to have it done by some old friends who know what they're doing. After that, it was finally my turn to play around with it 
So of course, I couldn't resist doing the site with Express/Node.js. And I'm pretty happy with the result too: about 130 lines of server-side code that allows me to write the content of the site in Markdown (including caching and automatically updating the cache if the Markdown files are updated) and my preferred solution to displaying feed items. Does a simple site like this call for Express/Node.js? Of course not. But I knew it would be simple and fun, so that's why I used it.
The hardest part was actually writing the content of the site. Apparently, writing content for a company website is a lot harder than churning out a few blog posts occasionally, and I definitely underestimated that. Not because there's a lot of content (there's very little actually), but because you want to avoid ending up with a lot of content. It has to be concise and yet still contain everything you want it to say. After many revisions, it says everything I want it to say, and unlike on this blog I actually managed to keep it short
An extra benefit of doing it with Express/Node.js is that it reminded me how much fun I have working with that stack, so I'm going to get back to work on my breakable toy which I've been neglecting for too long. I suppose this will lead to a few future posts as well