I realised my project update list has dragged on so here's how everything is going.
TPA Project
I'm actually leaving the TPA at the end of the month! At the time I decided to quit without having another job to go to and planned to take a long break in order to focus on my front-end skills. However since then I've been lucky enough to have been offered another job! So I've already done a little for that but I'll be working on it properly in September.
In any case one of the last things I have to wrap-up at the TPA is this application. Although I didn't use all the material design patterns that I wanted to I'm pleased to say that this is all done BUILT (which took me forever) and uploaded to the app store (without being published) as of yesterday.
Although on my way home I was playing with the version I installed on my phone and realised I forgot to include an icon so will have to suffer through re-building the whole thing again *cries*. Looking at it now that's the working title of the app rather than the actual title as well... *sigh*
In any case - here's what it looks like!
Debt Clock Project
At some point the Twitter Debt Clock stopped working. I wasn't able to figure out why it was broken and eventually decided to give up in favour of the aforementioned project. Then debt-clock.org stopped working and I can't access the server :/
Perfect time to just rip everything out and start again!
Well - there's more than a couple of things to add and I'm not happy with the design (there's a list of things that need adding) but the new site has a tiny filesize compared to the old one and looks much better on mobile (didn't think to take that screenshot...)
TPA Project
I'm actually leaving the TPA at the end of the month! At the time I decided to quit without having another job to go to and planned to take a long break in order to focus on my front-end skills. However since then I've been lucky enough to have been offered another job! So I've already done a little for that but I'll be working on it properly in September.
In any case one of the last things I have to wrap-up at the TPA is this application. Although I didn't use all the material design patterns that I wanted to I'm pleased to say that this is all done BUILT (which took me forever) and uploaded to the app store (without being published) as of yesterday.
Although on my way home I was playing with the version I installed on my phone and realised I forgot to include an icon so will have to suffer through re-building the whole thing again *cries*. Looking at it now that's the working title of the app rather than the actual title as well... *sigh*
In any case - here's what it looks like!
I'm just quite glad it's nearly over to be honest... It was difficult to find time to work on between everything else - I can't believe I've been working on this since January and this is all I have to show for it.....
Debt Clock Project
At some point the Twitter Debt Clock stopped working. I wasn't able to figure out why it was broken and eventually decided to give up in favour of the aforementioned project. Then debt-clock.org stopped working and I can't access the server :/
Perfect time to just rip everything out and start again!
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| Old Site |
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| New Site! Using the Bulma.io framework |
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| Further down the old site with the JS working |
So - I have 1 week left at the TPA. I wonder if I can finish this and get the Twitter-bot working again in that time.
Beck-Allan's
Last one! This is actually something I did as a challenge. I had 3 hours to fill and wanted to see how far I got. Beck-Allan's are already in the middle of a web-changeover so there's no way this project will go any further.
I'm not particularly proud of this one because the fonts, colours and otherwise don't really fit together but the most important thing is that all the information is on one page (even on mobile! And again I forgot to take that screenshot....).
When sketching from the old / current website there were a number of small pages with a number of images and a little text for each of the apartments and I thought that would be better handled with a gallery. All the relevant information about the apartment is now right by the picture and I tried to standardise it as well (ie rating, how many people, charm points).
And that's it! All my projects from the last month - and I'm really hoping I'll get to work on some more fun stuff very soon!
Beck-Allan's
Last one! This is actually something I did as a challenge. I had 3 hours to fill and wanted to see how far I got. Beck-Allan's are already in the middle of a web-changeover so there's no way this project will go any further.
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| Old website |
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| New website! It's a little grid-y but it has everything |
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| Icons from Font Awesome |
I'm not particularly proud of this one because the fonts, colours and otherwise don't really fit together but the most important thing is that all the information is on one page (even on mobile! And again I forgot to take that screenshot....).
When sketching from the old / current website there were a number of small pages with a number of images and a little text for each of the apartments and I thought that would be better handled with a gallery. All the relevant information about the apartment is now right by the picture and I tried to standardise it as well (ie rating, how many people, charm points).
And that's it! All my projects from the last month - and I'm really hoping I'll get to work on some more fun stuff very soon!
