Friday Check In: Aug 26, 2016

Planning your day, A day blank day planner with a blue pen

Project Check In:

  1. StudioBeLee.com:
    Phase I: Rebrand + Wire Frame  –
    Phase II: Update content + photos
    Phase III: Build
  2. Javascript (JS):  Make a JS driven intake from for Studiobelee.com
    Phase I: Design + Wire Frame  – Next Week
    Phase II: Content
    Phase III: Build
  3. Build a WP Theme from Underscores w/ a simple plugin.
    Phase I: Split Screen (JS) Site:
    3 issues:.

    • Icons for the social media
    • Author’s name getting cut off on the desktop break
    • gallery code only working in mobile break.

Phase II: Turn Project #2’s  Split Screen (JS) Site into a WP site using Underscores.
Phase III: Make a simple WP plugin for the site

Friday Check In: Aug 19, 2016

Writing down new plans

Project Check In:

Overall:  Had a bunch of fires to put out this week but at least did an hour of work each day.  Baby steps till this starts paying my bills full time.

  1. StudioBeLee.com:
    Phase I: Rebrand + Wire Frame  – Still working on it
    Phase II: Update content + photos
    Phase III: Build
  2. Javascript (JS):  Make a JS driven intake from for Studiobelee.com
    Phase I: Design + Wire Frame  – Next Week
    Phase II: Content
    Phase III: Build
  3. Build a WP Theme from Underscores w/ a simple plugin.
    Phase I: Split Screen (JS) Site:
    3 issues:.

    • Icons for the social media – Still working on it
    • Author’s name getting cut off on the desktop break
    • gallery code only working in mobile break.

Phase II: Turn Project #2’s  Split Screen (JS) Site into a WP site using Underscores. – Decided to start this phase of the project next week, as I’m still working out the bugs of Phase I.
Phase III: Make a simple WP plugin for the site

Friday Check In: Aug 12, 2016

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Project Check In:

  1. StudioBeLee.com:
    Phase I: Rebrand + Wire Frame  – Next Week
    Phase II: Update content + photos
    Phase III: Build
  2. Javascript (JS):  Make a JS driven intake from for Studiobelee.com
    Phase I: Design + Wire Frame  – Next Week
    Phase II: Content
    Phase III: Build
  3. Build a WP Theme from Underscores w/ a simple plugin.
    Phase I: Split Screen (JS) Site:
    3 issues:.

    • Icons for the social media
    • Author’s name getting cut off on the desktop break
    • gallery code only working in mobile break.

Phase II: Turn Project #2’s  Split Screen (JS) Site into a WP site using Underscores.

Phase III: Make a simple WP plugin for the site

Project #3: Learning to build a WordPress Theme from Underscores.

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Project #3: Learning to build a WordPress Theme from Underscores.

Intake:  Meet with Client.
Design: Style Title + Wire Frame + Client Feedback
Development: This well the challenge.
Test:
Launch:
Time Frame: One Year from Start Date
Goals:

  • Learn to understand what goes into making a very simple WordPress Theme from Underscores.
  • Make a very simple plugin
  • Work with a real client

Project #2: Pre Screening Intake Form – Completed WireFrame

Writing down new plans

Project #2: Coding a Pre Screening Intake Form using Javascript for my StudioBeLee.com site.

Checklist:

  • Wireframe: Create a wireframe
  • Game Plan: Figure out what I need with Javascript to hand code the page.
  • Code: Work on coding the page
  • Blog: Document it and blog the trails + errors
  • Research: how to add JS into a prebuilt WordPress Theme.

Time Frame: Ideally at the end of the summer.

WireFrame:  I’m going to build it out and then go back and work tinker with the design + ux.
SB Client Intake v2

Notes: I posted it on FB and received some feed back. I adjusted it to the current version.

Next Week: Game Plan

You know that old saying…

Hand of programmer holds puzzle with JavaScript programming language written

 “Make Plans, Make God Laugh.”

It doesn’t matter if you believe in God or any higher energies, you know what I mean. For this summer, I was looking to get an internship or pt job but with my mother’s health now hanging by a thread again and my own health been having issues. So I’m going to be picky on what I do with my time.  Right now, I’m not finding a internship or a pt time job that fits what I want to learn, so I need to create it.

Decide that I am making my own internship/pt job working for myself for 20 hours a week. Going to slowly train myself into working 4 to 5 hours a day on web dev during the week.  Have about 3 potential paid clients I am talking to,  one pet project that I am meeting with next week, and one mock project client that I’m planing to use to create a WordPress Theme for using underscores. Going to do a check in at the end of July to see how it is working.

My goals:

Daily:

  • 1hr:  Lessons + Learning + Reading
  • 2-3 hours: Build site and take notes on what I need to work on
  • 10 min breaks per hour

Projects:

  • Personal Chef Site
  • Build a site with Javascript with working registration
  • Artist Site w/ Etsy site using underscores to build a WordPress Theme (optional)

    Add projects on:

  • My portfolio on beleestudio.com
  • Github – learn to use version control
  • Codepen to play with options