Link: Jim Genell's Website
A friend of mine asked me to make them a website to promote their work. I did so and tried to tell them not to pay me but they insisted and I took the pay and invested it into the servers and tools I use for my personal work.
I did not design the site. He designed it and we worked together to ensure it functioned like he wanted.
The site has been built it a few times. I first built it with mostly vanilla PHP and the Slim Framework to handle requests. I built the pages as folders with a json file that controlled the content. I wrote the json by hand.
It is now on Laravel... but still uses json to control the page content. I mostly ported over the controllers I had used to get it to something newer. The content doesn't change that often so I don't need to change it as of yet. When he wants to update the content I will probably move it to the database and use FilamentPHP as the admin. I have grown to really like Filament.
This project works and I only work on it as needed.