My Process

The Goal?

I chose to implement disqus into the website and help design the overall page, but I wanted to add in the disqus feature because I wanted to try coding a bit. The projects page had all of the major project ideas that the Lansing and EL community came up with to help re-design the community. Disqus is a worldwide blog comment hosting service for web sites and online communities that use a networked platform.

Getting Started

At first, me and my team were all confused on what to to do and use to make the community feel engaged when they go to the site. We had to not only think about the technical aspect, but also the visual appeal as well. Luckily, my team mates were all pretty skillful, so we chose our ideas and put them all together.

Lessons Learned

1. Working in small teams is not as bad as I thought it was originally going to be. It definitely has its ups and downs, but that's a part of life. Having a diverse mindset of people really helped show off all of our abilities beautifully in the final design. Of course there are bad parts with communication and minor disputes, but once you reason and meet in the middle, it's all worth it in the end.
2. It's okay to lean on someone when you don't know what to do. We didn't know what to do for a long part of this project, but once we were assigned our parts, some of us may were been a bit confused still on implementing and we leaned on each other for help. It helped us out in the long run.
3. Patience is key. Trial and error is a must in life and it was so hard for me to get this simple implication into the website. It was not working at all when I followed so many tutorials and it almost drove me insane. But, I asked my fellow teammate for help and we tackled it together and did our own thing. It's okay to not follow the set rules or tutorials that are laid out. Follow your own path and that will make you grow more.