Problem
I needed my own website to win clients as a senior Moodle/PHP developer, instead of a vendor CMS I had no control over. And above all I wanted to manage all the content myself —blog, portfolio, testimonials, clients, messages— without touching code or depending on anyone to publish or fix things.
Solution
I built it on Laravel 13 with a custom admin panel that manages absolutely everything: blog posts with their tag taxonomy, portfolio case studies (create, edit, delete, ordering and featured), testimonials, clients and the contact-form messages. It includes image uploads with responsive WebP conversion (320/640/1024), field-by-field ES/EN bilingual editing, and access protected with TOTP 2FA, throttling and a honeypot. The front end is Tailwind v4 with localized-slug i18n, per-page JSON-LD SEO, a dynamic sitemap and per-request nonce CSP headers.
Result
The site runs in production fully under my control: I can create and edit any content —posts, portfolio, tags, testimonials, clients— from the backend, with no deploys or technical help. It is backed by CI tests and automatic daily backups. It is also living proof of how I work: clean architecture, a bespoke admin panel, WCAG AA accessibility and careful end-to-end security.