About this Project

The original draft of this portfolio was done for Western Washington University’s Computer Science class 202. I, admittedly, had a different design in mind before I even began. One of the requirements for the classes final project is that the pages needed to be made in Bootstrap. I had never actually used Bootstrap before. At first I was determined to make my original design and edit the template in SASS.

But after a week of following various instructions from various websites of how to setup a sass theme I kept running into little finicky problems with getting my code to even compile. So I chose a Bootswatch theme that I thought would be easy change to look like my initial design (Made in Inkscape). But what I failed to understand was that in the sass code for that theme had linked two colors in such a way that a that a background tagged dark would turn green.

Later I looked at the code and began to understand why this was happening. I still hadn't a clue how to compile the code to fix it though. So I started with a new theme— Bootswatch's Lux after staring at that theme for a while I decided I liked it and decided to make changes to make it my own. I added a background image, a script font and subtle background gradients.

I am still wrestling with whether I can truly call this my design my own. Bootstrap and the Lux themes code is quite large and my actual code is not all that intense. I am used to working with Skeleton a very light weight framework which is about 400 lines.

Out of the box a Skeleton website is going to be quite boring while a Bootstrap one is going to be quite complete.