The website

This week’s assignment was to make a website and present an idea for a final project. So starting with the web page I used a free template from HTML5 UP called highlights and modified it to my likings. I’ve done some html before but to get me started again I took a course on code academy wich got me up and running again. I looked through a few text editors and the ones I liked best were Atom and Brackets. I tried them both out while working on the site and decided to go with Brackets as I found it to suit me better. The main problem I faced with the site was the size of the folder. It was around 1.5mb when I had done all my edits so the next step was to throw away any unnecessary code and to compress the pictures. I used tinypng to compress, pixlr to add some blur and finally shrinkpictures to get the pctures to the size I needed them in.

The Final Project

I found it hard to decide on a final project, I had a few ideas and I might have even more ideas as the program progresses. I think I might settle on making two small cubes, each with a button. When you press the button on one cube the other one makes a sound and vice versa. The goal would be to make them speak wirelessly. Maybe add a silent mode where the cube glows instead of making noise. This would really just be made for fun, communications in the simplest manner like morse code. I can however see this in use when having it on a keychain that when you would lose it you could locate it again by tracking the sound. The reason I would like to make that into a project is because I’ve had this idea for a long time and have never imagined me being able to actually making it on my own, untill I was introduced to the fabacademy. Now this idea might change or be a whole different idea at the end of this program. I come from a background of music and making something music/sound related would be pretty obvious to do. Something that either makes a sound or reacts to it.

Git

  • I took a course on codeacademy to get somewhat of an idea for how Git works. What I do is I use the command “dir” to see all folders and files and “cd” to navigate to the folder I select.

  • I use these commands to navigate to the fabacademy folder the instructor set up.

  • Once there I type “git pull” to fetch all the files I currently don’t have to keep everything up to date.

  • After I’ve done the changes to the website I type “git status” to see if git recognizes the changes. The names of the files that were changed should appear red.

  • Next I type “git add .” to select all the changes I made and then “git commit -m “(describe the changes I made)” “

  • Finally it’s just “git push” to send the changes.