September 4, 2018
For Web Applications Programming I (ITC 240) in winter 2018 for my web design certificate at Seattle Central College with Bill Newman I created three web applications with Bootstrap themes and PHP: Widgets Original, Widgets, and Sprockets. Each one completes the requirements to include an authenticated login area with image upload, a MySQL database accessible through PHPMyAdmin, the ability to switch between themes, dynamic content that changes daily, and an authenticated contact form. Widgets Original Widgets Original is the first version of the web application I made, based on assignments in class. Since I wanted to use all components of the original theme’s design instead of stripping it to its core, I dug heavily into the HTML and learned a lot about how to create custom and common PHP files to feature the different sections available to me. By the end of the course, this site became my testing ground... Read more
August 20, 2018
Mind Your Time is an app I designed for my User Interface & Experience Design (WEB 202) class in spring 2018 for my web design certificate at Seattle Central College. Everyone in the class was required to work on a final project of their choosing in order to make the most of the time allotted to developed our desired skills. Since one of the requirements was for the project to not have a client, I decided to design an app. At the end of the quarter, I combined the need for an app landing page with the final assignment for Content Management Systems (WEB 170), which was to create a portfolio site in WordPress. The result is a fully dedicated app site that includes a blog with posts about my inspiration, the app’s purpose, and persona research as well as photo mockups and screenshots from my design. Overall, designing an... Read more
August 20, 2018
In spring 2018, I designed and created a portfolio site for Content Management Systems (WEB 170) for to fulfill the final project requirements for the course. We needed to use HTML5 Blank starter theme and to include navigation, three sidebars, five plugins including a contact form, and a blog page with at least five posts and categories. The structure of the course and the intersection of the assignment with another final project–Mind Your Time App for WEB 202–encouraged me to design my site early on in the quarter. The first thing I did was formulate the color palette and site architecture, keeping the rubric at top of mind. The first few weeks of the quarter were spent creating HTML templates based on screenshots from the instructor, so I pulled components from that design to inspire my own, including the logo and navigation placement, CSS for the block quote on the... Read more
August 20, 2018
MimiSmith Restaurant is a Bootstrap, responsive web application created for Web Authoring III (WEB 130) in Spring 2018, in partnership with Mariam Abdelmohsen. For our final project, we were required to create (on our own or with a partner) a responsive web application in which a user may login through an authenticated form and submit new content via a back-end API that automatically updates on the main page. The suggestion from the instructor Josh Wedekind was to create a website, but Mariam and I were interested in exploring our design skills as well as experimenting with the content and whatever challenges it might bring. We were required to utilize Graph Cool, Sass syntax, and JavaScript, all processed through Grunt (installed via command line) and tracked in a repository on Github. In addition, I included royalty-free images from unsplash.com and menu items pulled from random Google searches for inspiration. We used PHP to dynamically change... Read more
