brigleb/forkme — pull request #6 by hannaliebl (2013-08-24 19:40:31+00:00)
Title: Hanna Liebl's project for Needmore Designs

I had Git, Compass, and SASS set up already, so that didn't take any time. I did end up reading a lot about Git during this project, though, so I'd say that took the most time. I have only recently started using Git, and I had never worked with anyone else's repo using GitHub. The main challenges in this project were with Git, actually, and just getting to a place of understanding how it worked and feeling comfortable with it–which I do, at this point, at least the basics of the workflow. I did everything through the Terminal and so there were the occasional runs to StackOverflow to read over questions and then I read a lot of guides about Git before really starting into the project.

I worked on this over the course of a few days when I had spare hours. All told the development of the basic site itself didn't take too much time: I'd estimate five hours for the structure, text/image formatting, and responsive breakpoint once I decided on a direction to go in. What did take time were all the tiny little design changes I kept making, because I didn't plan out a detailed design out beforehand and got to work just straight in the browser. At times I backtracked from local branches when something didn't work out. I often found myself trying to make the project more complex than it had to be...I experimented with writing a grid system and floating the questions and answers, but in the end I decided that the content itself really didn't need that much complexity. I also initially used an ordered list instead of an unordered list for the questions and answers, but I got sidetracked into trying to style the ordered list and really wasn't happy with a.) how difficult it is to style ordered lists and b.) how it ended up looking anyways. I spent probably too much time deciding between fonts and colors and tweaking transparencies.

The last main thing I did was make the site a little more legible and attractive on smaller screens. I had never used SASS syntax to create a responsive site so I did a little reading on that and just settled on one breakpoint since the site content was simple enough already.

Thank you for the opportunity!

--Hanna