August 20, 2018
Matt Budd is a local fabricator and engineer whose primary business is creating custom bike frames. Matt was a client for Advanced Web Design (WEB 210), a course that I took in summer 2018 at Seattle Central College for my web design certificate. I designed his buddbikes.com with two other teammates to create a site that was responsive, clean, and professional. For the design project, I was on a team with Shelly Oun and Rattana Neak. Shelly is a web designer and Rattana is a web developer, so after our initial consultation meeting, it became clear that I should take on the project management role in order to adequately distribute all of our talents and resources. Matt requested a new website for his three domains—buddbikes.com, budd.bikes, and bbvvllc.com—to promote his business as well as become a personal portfolio for his engineering work samples. We needed to create the layout, site... 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
