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Artist website redesign (original site: http://garcia-art.com/index.html)
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Trello board (https://trello.com/b/1bL4jpEu/break-project)
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What is the goal of the project?
To begin work on a complete redesign and deployment of my parents' website. They are professional sculptors with an outdated website. My goal is to build a rails application that allows them to showcase their work. I don't anticipate completing full redesign over the break with all content and links, so I am breaking it down into a simpler version to complete. This can serve as an intial 'draft' of the site to give them an idea of how the design and layout will work.
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Who is the target audience (can be just yourself)?
It is for the benefit of my parents, but also for potential customers of their work. I also am excited by the idea of taking on the development of a 'real' site that will be used for my parents business.
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What are your personal learning goals?
My goals are to gain experience working with a customer and how that can affect managing a project. I also plan this as a review of my skills in ruby/rails, although I intend to incorporate some javascript into the app. Design is another aspect of this project I look forward to practicing. I don't feel particularly confident with my design choices, so this will give me an opportunity to explore. I will probably use bootstrap as a start.
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What technologies/frameworks/patterns will you be employing?
Ruby, Rails, Javascript(JQuery + Ajax). I will attempt to follow TDD development of the ruby portions of the project.
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What are the tech and/or skill dependencies of your project?
Ability to plan out a realistic part of this redesign that fits into 10-15 hours. I anticipate this being a start to the larger redo. Therefore, I have identified certain aspects to begin with. I'm aiming for a dynamic home or index page that loads the show pages without refreshing the browser, which will be my chance to solidify my JQuery and Ajax skills we learned with Jukebox.
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What does success look like for this project? What does done mean?
My goal is to have a new home page that incorporates some javascript to load content. In addition to this, I aim to have index and show pages for each of my parent's work. To begin, I will work on index/show pages for their bronze work only, and after this break incorpoate pages for the other forms of art that will eventually live on the site. I will create a contact page and explore ways to use javascript to work with image display.