Creation of a website for our cursus

This website will centralize all our assignments,details and informations about this year at the Fabacademy 2017

This assignment was divided in two part : how to use a shared repository and version control (Git on this case) and how to quickly generated a website (bootstrap and the agency template here)
The first part was quite easy (I'm working in IT) and I have mainly assisted the others students here in Bruxelles (on Windows).

You need to prepare a folder (here we will use fabacademy), it will be the one you will sync with the repository

You need to install git-bash git-bash, the command line tool we will use to work with Git

You need to install OpenSSH OpenSSH for Windows to generate a SSH key who will alllow you to create a secure way to communicate to the repository

After these installations, we can now execute our first Git commands:

Firts, execute these commands in the following orders. The will set up you repository for the right branch

git pull

git checkout staging

git merge master

git push origin HEAD

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You are ready to update and receive updates from the repository!

To check the updates, simply use the "git push" command in your repository

To push a update, you will need to perform several steps:

1) "git add ." will add your changes to your next update

2) "git commit -m "your message"" will prepare your update and add a message to help you keep things tidy

3) "git push" will finally push your update to the repository

Here you are, in a few steps, you have done your first pull/push in your repository! and keep the "git status" command in mind to see what's happening

The construction of the web site took me quite some long for two reasons : I was very rusty on web subjects and I was trying to underdstand the whole template who was quite complex for some part.
I'm using Atom as css/html editor
I have started with complete exploration of the CSS part, quite complicated in this template.
You have to work in the CSS folder and also the one located in vendor/bootstrap/CSS. After a while, I was confortable enough to change easily the color of the texts, the fonts, ..
I moved then to the site itself. The general structure was fine but the modules who open new windows and not a new page in the assignment section were not practical.
Thanks to the tutorial of Thomas, I have changed that to open a new html page, much easier to manage. (week1, week2,...)
I have now a fonctionnal and modular tool for the nex part of this cursus

My final project :
I will build a electric skateboard/longboard (to be decided) with a remote control for the speed, maybe when you close or open you hand to accelerate/brake. I'm working on the modeling and rendering right now

The best (and complicated ^^) part is yet to come!

• Date: January 2017