Starting point
Desvelopment needed a professional digital calling card to position the company, its services and completed projects clearly online.
This website
Desvelopment
The website you are browsing right now: built with Astro as a static site, bilingual, with attention to performance, accessibility and a clean design.
What was needed
- Present software and web services clearly
- Show real projects and technical experience
- Support Dutch and English content
- Remain fast, accessible and maintainable without a CMS
The solution
A static Astro website that is built ahead of time, needs very little browser JavaScript and is managed directly in source code by the developer.
Technology used in this project
- Astro
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
The website
This website puts Desvelopment on the digital map as a company. It acts as a professional calling card, an overview of the services and a concrete example of how I build software and websites.
Astro generates every page ahead of time as static files. No database or server-side application is needed, and browser JavaScript is limited to interactions that genuinely benefit from it.
The services, hosting, company and project pages share the same components and visual foundation. Projects are maintained as typed content, so new cases automatically appear in the timeline, detail navigation and sitemap.
Bilingual and technically discoverable
Dutch and English routes are linked centrally. Every page receives translated metadata, a canonical URL and hreflang references, while the sitemap contains the correct language alternates as well. Schema.org data and environment-aware robots settings complete the technical SEO without hard-coding production origins.
Accessible design
The design focuses on typography, hierarchy and clear actions. The mobile menu behaves as a proper sidebar with focus handling and scroll locking. Light and dark modes follow the device preference by default, while a manual choice is persisted. Focus styles and reduced-motion preferences are respected throughout the interface.
Deliberately without a CMS
A CMS was deliberately left out for this website. Its small group of maintainers and typed source content make another management system unnecessary. This keeps the attack surface and operational complexity small, while Astro optimises images for different screen sizes during the build.