Finally - Relaunch of my personal website and blog

It’s May 2024 and I am really happy to share that not only the relaunch of my personal website and blog has been done, but I also migrated content from 2023 and beginning of 2024 from Wordpress to Hugo.

I had a lot of struggle during the migration, as there had been some major issues with retrieving the images from my old posts. After a lot of trial and error and spending a lot of time investigating, in most cases it had been easier to follow my descriptions in the blog and retake pictures. 🙄 So don’t be surprised, that with closer inspection some pictures might look a bit different than before - interfaces in Dynamics 365 or Dataverse are changing.

In some cases I also used this, to update existing blog posts - adding a new chapter or making a new Updated note to the post.

I am not 100% convinced that the current state of the website is the final one, and there might be some tweaking in the next weeks and months. So please, do not be frustrated, when something is not working as expected. I am working on it.
This is also the reason why I am currently not advertising the blog so much. There is a bunch of greta people informaed about the blog and I will look for feedback. The blog is also not set to private, so you can find it, but I think I will start to announce the blog again in July after finxing some initila bugs. Nevertheless, if you found the blog, and have comments, remarks etc. please reach out to me. Feedback, as always is very welcome.
I hope, that the benefits of the new blog are much bigger than any downsides.

As I don’t want all the additional stuff that comes with wordpress or any other CMS system, like discussions, integratons with google or any other tracking cookies, I am completely focusing on content. And when someone wnts to interact with me - fine. Lez’s use LinkedIn as professional networking tool or write me an email.

Unfortunately you will not be able to directly share or interact with any of my comment from within this website. All external links will open in a new tab and there is no integration with any like or share buttons. So, feel free, to share and like my posts on LinkedIn, where I will announce new posts.

But this is part of being really focused on the content and I do not want to worry in the future about any GDPR / DSGVO topics that may arise due to some used plugins. This site is static without any integrations. So I hope you will find nevertheless the infromation that you are looking for.

Everything related to Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Dataverse and lots of Community related activities.

Keep on Learning 👍 Keep on Sharing your knowledge. Let’s get better together.

Update

• Added a series part to the website to group posts even better than with tags

Upcoming changes based on feedback

Even though I wanted to not add a lot of extra functionality, I will think about these 2 suggestions as they had been mentioned by some friends already:

• Lightbox, to show pictures in fullscreen
• Search - I will try. Looking for some alternatives at the moment, as I do not want to inlucde google in the website, after removing everything as part of the migration to hugo CMS. But I can totally understand the feedback.