2015-11-23I was elected 'Web Designer'for Trinity's Entrepreneurial Society at the end of the 2015 College year (June).
This was different from most of my other work in the sense that I didn't have to build and design a website from scratch.It was already done!!.
That said, it brought on a whole bunch of new experiences for me.
- It is hosten on Amazon's AWS. This was my first time using AWS, SSH'ing, Virtual Hosts etc..
- It was my first time collaboratingproperlyon a site using VCS such as Git.
- It was the first site I'd taken over, thankfully I was the more experienced developer in this situation and I brought a lot to the table, but I'd never dealt with 'cleaning up'before.
If it was already designed and developed what did I do?
Well it may have been a working website but there was a lot I improved upon.
- Firstly, I converted the site to use'pretty urls'
- So testrinity.com/events.html becomestestrinity.com/events
- I integrated it with Wordpress so regular committee members could create pages from the template page.
- I setup and styled the Wordpress Blog, so committee members could blog.
- I redesigned the Events page and made it dynamic so that the events are automatically pulled in from the TES Facebook page (so I didn't have to manually update it every week).
- I redesigned the 'Committee' page, converted it to a modern'card style'with on-hover events displaying a bio and a LinkedIn link.
- And many more minor UI changes.