Building a Website: Senior Project

Hello! Here we are with week 4. This blog post will address more questions pertaining to my project. What is Your Plan and Implementations For the Project? First off, I will start with current plans and how to get the website up and running. To do this, I am going to continually work on the website little by little, preferably working more on it as my deadline for the quarter nears. To help achieve my short-term goals and stay organized, I have made a kanban-style board through my GitHub repo where I am keeping things organized. Below is an example which can be found at  https://github.com/supernick123abc/nickscoolstuff/projects/1 : As you can see, there is mainly a focus on making the website look good, since this will be a portfolio website which will help show off me and my work.  For after-quarter goals, I plan on keeping the website up and running and uploading new portfolio items to it while updating my resume-like-stuff on the website. I may try to implement a for

Hello! Week 3. This blog post will address more questions pertaining my project and my overall IT skills. What Are Your Personal Professional IT Strengths (Technical and Soft Skills? I have various hard and soft skills, with more of a focus on my soft skills and learning capabilities. My skills are as follows: Hard Skills HTML, CSS, and Javascript Java (though it has been 2 or so years) Basic understanding of CMD, VBA, and Linux commands VM and Hyper-V Knowledge Hardware installation and troubleshooting Software installation and troubleshooting Inventory and task management Small amounts of game development Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) skills and audio/video editing skills Soft Skills Can be detail-oriented if given time Easily get involved and "sucked in" to projects Passionate about self-improvement Always looking for ways to do things more efficiently Work well under pressure and stress Growing confidence over time Proficient writing and r

You Moved Again? Yes and no. I am still using Blogger, but with AWS and Blogger together, I have implemented this blog into a subdomain of my new website! You can now check out this blog at blog.nickscoolstuff.com and my regular website (which is currently under maintenance) at nickscoolstuff.com . I am still currently in the process of getting certificates/HTTPS working but I hope to get it going soon. I have gotten an SSL certificate through Amazon and verified my domain, but Cloudfront which helps me distribute my website out to more locations/AWS itself doesn't seem to be converting the HTTP to HTTPS like I want it too. Another problem for another time I guess. What is Your Project? Alright, here we go with proper explanation. For my senior project in the BASIS program at Olympic College, I am making a blog/portfolio website. Why? Because I want to be able to have a platform to express and market myself, while also having something fun to manage on my own.

Getting Started / Expectations So, just to get this out of the way... My original blog site is located at  http://nickscoolstuff.co.nf/research-project-ai/ Which brings me to why we are here. Why Did You Move? If you checked out my site linked above, you may have thought "This is nice (or just functional). Why are you moving to something like Blogger? Well for starters, I was having issues with my hosting service, Wordpress files, the database, and permissions. To simplify and keep things short: My main account that I used for posting everything on the site messed up and I can't seem to fix it without jumping through hoops and pulling my hair out. I managed to add another admin account to use and keep the site up and running until the near future. My Senior Project As some of you may know, I am a student at Olympic College in Bremerton. It is a smaller, yet respected community college. I have been going there since high school through running sta