Course Competancies
- Practice team building activities.
- Investigate issues in website design.
- Explore strategic planning for website projects.
- Develop website development documentation.
- Develop a website implementation and maintenance plan.
- Investigate website implementation and maintenance solutions, technologies and issues.
- Demonstrate client presentation.
- Demonstrate website user training
Reflection
During this project, I practiced designing, developing, and implementing a website by following workflow models commonly used in the professional field. It was a team project, and we had to work together to fulfill requirements for an imaginary client. I worked on developing ang the graphics and logo, in addition to fulfilling my role as the team developer by coding the site as efficiently as I could using PHP includes and meeting web standards.
Before this class, I had no idea how much was invol;ved in getting a website project from start to completion.
During this class, I gained gained good practice:
- Working with teams
- Coding a website
- Learning about the phases that can be implemented into a workflow
- Filling in for the management role
- Working with people who prefer to do the sub-minimum
- Debugging CSS
- Gathering information from learning materials
- Making documentation for the web production process
- Doing creative work tasks
- Wireframing using paper and Adobe XD
- Using task management systems to organize team tasks and time
- Organizing collaborative file systems
- Making solutions for seemingly impossible situations
- Scheduling and organizing meetings
- Managing team time
- Communicating with team members
- The importance of double checking to make sure everything is where it needs to be
- Handling stress
- Managing expectations
- Seeing the entire process from a birds-eye view when I bundled up everything at the end
This class gave me the solid foundation I needed to work with future client projects, so I am thankful even for the immense of things that inevitably went haywire when working with and trying to depend on the other team members.
