This website was created as a school project to test the comprehension and application of HTML5 and CSS3. The overall theme was selected as a small business website that sells western tack and gear associated with horseback riding. Several enabling objectives were listed in the rubric, and the entire site was formed around these objectives. First goal was to create a template for the heading and color theme, and the associated CSS file. After the overall structure was completed, progression was systematic in following the rubric from one objective to the next, building upon the completion of the previous.

This involved many hours of trial-and-error, hundreds of google searches, and reviewing previous projects and assignments. The resulting code consisted of pieces from many other assignments, open sources, and of course plain originality. Code was tweaked, re-worked, and often scrapped for something completely different. Once a good piece of code was formed, it was utilized in other pages to ensure the most uniformity and a more contiguous start to finish experience for the end-user.

Some particular parts to the site that went well, was the slideshow and the uniform color scheme. this brought the site together as a single entity. Areas to improve on the site include the products, in particular with making individual pages for each. this would allow for further product description and the being able to quickly add more products as the business selection grows. some other areas of improvement consist with file management, in particular the images. If the site were to expand much further, a better system should be implemented in file management, possibly sub-folders for each product page. And lastly, a personalized shopping cart site would be utilized that would offer a more complete feel to the experience. Having a wonderful site completed with a bland shopping cart just does not do it justice!

To view the associated CSS file, click here.
A consolidated file of associated HTML files can be found here.