Building a Website: Senior Project

Welcome to week 10! This is our last week so let's get into it... Project Reflections In this final journal entry, I would like to discuss the successes of my project, what could have been better, as well as what was effective and what was challenging. To start off, I am very pleased with my results for my senior project. I had a lot of fun making a web site and learned some new things, all while practicing web development and making a website on my own. Having an official .com domain now is really cool too and it is not that much money to maintain. For successes, I think utilizing Git/Github and utilizing the project/kanban boards really helped me out, though I could have been better at updating my kanban board more. Having my code up on Github allowed for better organization and allowed me to work on my website from both home and school much more easily. It also allows for a space for my code to live and document changes over time. I also think that the functions of m

Welcome to week 9! We're almost done with school!...But there is always work to do with websites. What Did You Do This Week? For this week's blog, I took my website out for a test-drive and showed it to my colleagues which gave me useful feedback. I showed the website specifically to my friends/co-workers up in IT for Olympic College. This post will share some of that information and how I interpreted it. Having an outside perspective on my website has helped me see improvements that I somewhat knew were there but didn't realize how important they could be. Outside Feedback One aspect of the website that could be improved but not as important is with the theme. Having a dark website looks nice, but it is not always the best. Some suggestions I got from my colleagues were that the website might improve from a white theme as well. I originally had the website in white but liked the contrast more of a dark theme. I guess this means I could make some sort of dar