Internship at JEL Creative_week8
What I worked on
This week was very front-end heavy for me! Wednesday through Friday was I doing strictly mockups and markup. Well, to be more specific, Wednesday was spent in photoshop doing mockups, and Thursday and Friday were straight markup days. The site I was working on is a flat 3-5 page restaurant site for a diner downtown that I believe all my co-workers are familiar with (except me, so I need to make it a point to go some time). The first hour or two I spent in sublime text felt a little rocky, just because I hadn’t really done any web projects for a solid year and a half, but after a while it came back to me and I was flying through it just fine.
Then there was the Pride Fund Rally at the Capital on Thursday. Pride Fund and a bunch of other anti-gun-violence organizations all banded together to do a sort of sit-in on the west capital lawn. They had a ton of different speakers: lawmakers, and victims, and eye-witnesses—really, really powerful. My mom and little brother happened to be visiting me for the weekend in DC this week, so I invited them to come to the rally with me. Mom was the first to spot all the Pride Fund shirts and signs, and it was so cool to see something that had only existed on a screen in people’s hands. Like, they were holding my work. The only thing I wish I could change is the campaign posters: the url is currently on the bottom edge, and now I think it would be better positioned on the top (much like the table banner). I didn’t realize people would be holding these up at rallies! I figured they’d be posted on lawns and up on walls for press conferences.
What was difficult
Working with Bootstrap on a real-life client project with zero experience with bootstrap before. Thankfully I had Chris to wheel over to my desk and explain their column system and give me a basic run down. It wasn’t as bad as I thought! Just scary—it felt like some large uncle picked me up and threw me into a pool that was a little colder than I would’ve liked, but it all ended up being okay.
There were some tricky classes and that I had to wrangle with, and I had Danny help me figure out why some things broke and why others didn’t. There’s definitely some restructuring and re-naming of classes that I’d like to tackle on the menu page this week, but I know I’m going to have to walk on egg shells so I don’t break anything by accident.
What I accomplished
Got familiar with Bootstrap
Refreshed my memory on basic HTML/CSS rules
Learned some above-the-fold best practices when it comes to content+hero images
What I’m looking forward to
Getting the site more organized this week on the menu page
Hopefully getting my Pride Fund t-shirt!!!