Team members: Me,  Jillian, David

http://wbb-template-1.local

We each made our own client sites seperately

Client- Wild Blueberry Land

Team Members- Nick Poulin & Christiana Mosca

For my contributions to the website, I mainly worked on the home page and making it look better but I’d say the most important role I played was figuring out how to use WooCommerce make all the products the same size and edit the footer to update cruicial information and add a link to take the wild pledge. Altogether I think my team worked well together, we had a late start but luckily there was already a website that just needed some tweaking. I think outside of class we only had to meet once or twice and other than that we worked on the website either in class or on our own.

Team members- Daniel Khat, Kearson Sutton

Website- http://www.emilyhclarke.com/alexanders/

My Contributions- Redesigning the our story page (need higher quality photos for some), Contact form, migrating the home page information, Migrating the FAQ page information.

I think for the most part my group worked pretty well together. One of our biggest struggles was communicating with the client but but on their end not ours as it would take several days for us to get a response on simple information we needed to start designing. I think another one of the bigger struggles for our group was that we all have busy schedules so we weren’t able to meet outside of class time to work on the site at all but I think we made it work pretty well. We as a team were able to communicate pretty well over slack ignorer to keep each other in the loop on what we’re needed help with and what progress we made. As a group we agreed that there was some more changes we would have wanted to make to perfect the site but time wise it just wasn’t feasible for us to complete.

1. Category; Client Site
2. Client name Wesogus Blueberry Farm
3. Team membersL Parker King, Kyle Hope
4. Site URL: http://www.tylerlaytons.xyz/Wescosgus/
5. Your specific contributions: Our Processes, FAQ page, Home page
6. What you learned from working on a team and with clients ; 1-2 paragraphs
   ie What worked well on your team ( or as a solo template creator)  What could be improved and how?  In this process learning counts in your evaluation even when the outcome is less that you had hoped. And we often learn best from out mistakes.

One thing I really enjoyed about working was making the website for a real purpose. I think it was great to give Marie a website she herself obviously couldn’t make. I learned what it takes to make a clean and well put together dream host site for a client. I now know what it takes to communicate and form a plan with a client and team.

I think one thing that could be improved is learning more tips and tricks for dreamiest rather than the backend code that comes with it. I myself was still learning while making the website so that would of helped a ton. I think the communication and even workload worked very well for my team.

1. Wescogus Wild Blueberries
2. Parker King, Tyler Layton, Kyle Hope
3. Tyler had his capstone today and was unable to export the URL. You said you were fine with doing it yourself! Thank you!     http://www.tylerlaytons.xyz/Wescosgus/
4. I worked on the home page by adding images and moving the take a pledge to this page, I re-formatted the our story layout and made the animation for it, wrote a new section for just Dell and added that in, I wrote the new our process text and had it revised with Marie and made the animation for this page, I completely re-did the recipes page layout- found new images for the recipes and imported recipes from another site owned by Marie into this page, I categorized each recipe/animation with the help from you, the animation on nutrition page was done by me, animation on FAQ and Contact page. I revised the text on our process, our story , the home page and the FAQ with Marie.
5. I am very thankful to have had such an amazIng client. I thought Marie was just going to be a client with needs however I was able to connect with her not only from the loss of my dog, but through the love of animals and all things wild in Maine. I learned that not all clients will be just clients and that a connection and friendship can be made from them. The next biggest thing I learned was communication. I was the liaison and luckily Marie was super flexible. I think that our group had a hard time finding a time that worked well with everyone for meetings but we still figured it out. I learned that communication at LEAST twice a week is needed. It was extremely hard to conveal information from Marie to my group ( even if they were forwarded on emails). I just had a hard time making sure the group knew ALL of the fine details that Marie had talked about. 

     The next thing I learned and possibly the biggest is that there should and will be lots of revisions. Although we waited until today (it worked out because we had prior revisions), revisions should happen before a final due date and they should also be often. I knew going into this project I wouldn’t be offended if changes were made because that is our job. I learned that patience is needed for parts of the website that needed re-editing. There were days were I spent hours on the website editing and then there would be 1 or 2 things that I could simply not figure out or do on my own. As much as I wanted them done right then and there after hours of editing, it wasn’t until a day or two later until the changes were made. (which is OK). This was a very good experience for me in terms of fieldwork and working with a client in general. I appreciate the opportunity and look forward to doing stuff like this in the future.

   I think everyone in a group setting feels like other members arent doing as much. Which at some points was exactly how I felt. I think maybe a little bit more participation and communication would have been helpful from my end. Something that worked on our team was that Tyler had a better understanding of Elementor than I did. When I had a technical issue he was able to easily help me with that vs. me trying to take an hour to figure it out, that was overall very helpful. Our group slack channel was also super helpful and an effective way of communicating.

Client: Wildblueberryland

Team Members: Amelia Matrick, Christiana Mosca

My contributions: I acted as a liaison, cleaned up a majority of the website(cleaned up the homepage, researched woo-commerce, created the returns page, cleaned up the Our Story, Museum, and other fixes), assigned tasks to each person, facilitated troubleshooting, and idea generation.

What I learned: This class has really taught me that in the face of uncertain circumstances the need for leadership is at its highest. If a group does not have someone to take the helm then nothing will get done. Another thing I learned was that clients’ expectations and their needs are never the same things. Our client initially asked for the moon and was not focused on what she actually needed for the website to succeed but more on how it looked.

Export file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1czMEveEoQxe_Cto1JcbNJLU5zpQwHzE1/view?usp=sharing

Template: https://www.jillybeantompkins.com/wbbtemplate/

I tried.

Template Group 1

Team Members:

Jillian Thompkins, Michael McCabe

URL:

Home

My Contributions:

I built this whole template site by myself. I scavenged all the photos, produced all the text and designed the whole site.

I unfortunately didn’t get to work with a client so I worked independently on a template site. Now that I’ve learned WordPress and Elementor pretty well, it was pretty easy to build a template so I learned how powerful this knowledge can be because many small businesses have some really poor sites. I’ve also learned how important color schemes can be on a website. I truly do believe a color scheme can make or break a website so I spent a considerable amount of time working with different colors and swatches to pick just the right colors I was going for. I’m pretty proud of how my template site came out but I just wish exporting and importing sites was a lot easier. Overall, I didn’t really have any issues with my client site.