Did you want to see the end of this project? Voilà! My first wordpress website for an outside party (not for myself and not for class). (Visit the website here).
Excitement.
I was so thrilled to work on this project with just a wonderful, wonderful foundation. They were all so kind and sincerely enthusiastic about their cause. And why shouldn’t they be? It’s pretty amazing.
The design for this website is inspired by the logo (which, in turn, was inspired by the project). So I wanted it to pull off of the colors and feel of the logo, the urban grittiness of it. Youthful and exciting, but still clean and easy to navigate. Successful? Those are things you’d have to judge. I’m kind of bias.
Not to say it was all roses and sunshine. Web development is roll-your-sleeves-up and make-a-pot-of-coffee kind of stuff. Or at least it was for me. The night before it was due, my unbelievably generous friend Carissa stayed up with me and sent me screen shoots of what the website looked like a PC (specifically the most evil browser of all: Internet Explorer). Back and forth over skype for hours. Quite luckily she is in China so while it was 4:30 in the morning for me, it was only the early evening for her. Princess C is truly a great friend. So many occasions where she has swooped in to help me out of precarious predicaments. Thank you.
Here are some things I learned:
01. Internet Explorer is hands down the most terrible browser. When all these neat advancements are taking place in web development, there’s always a footnote: “This is not possible in IE” or “You have to do make an ‘ifIE’ exception.” HATE. As my friend Kyle so-aptly put it: “The only people who use IE are old people in libraries.”
02. CSS3 is the bees knees
03. Keeping the original code is essential. When you have horribly manged your website there’s nothing better than just deleting all the code you added and reinstating the original code. You probably just need to add a div anyway.
04. Avoid absolute positioning like the plague..
05. I love a good challenge.