The Paint Place

I have done it! I have finished my first client project!

Well... ok, so it was a fake client... Big deal! I still finished so that is at least something.

Anyway, yes i am back with another awesome website made by yours truly. This site is about all things paint for a guy I made up called Peter Painter. Pretty clever huh, i know, i'm so proud. But this site included what we have learned so far which meant we had to do it the hard way.

What we did was take a theme we liked from the list of themes given through Wordpress and rewrite some of the coding to make it our own. In other words it is another childtheme project. The name of the (fake) store is called The Paint Place. Isn't my teacher so creative and original? But all in all the actual product didn't turn out too bad. I used the theme called Kindergarten which was the closest to the look the "client" wanted for this site.

 This right here is my home page, it is two pictures because the screen capture wouldn't fit all of it in. On the home page it has a small little picture slideshow of random paint scenes, the Painter's Decree, and a link to comments put in by the users of the web (not really, those are just me).

 We had to include several pages that had to revolve around the idea that this was an actual site for an actual company. For starters there was an inspiration page that talks all about Peter's life and why he wanted to start the Paint Place. Nowhere, Oklahoma is an actual place, you need to search that up.

 This page we had to put in store locations, so a map of Kansas was put on the page with pushpins showing where all of the stores were located. The map even includes major highways and streets so you won't get lost.

Here we had to include a learning center page so I decided to make a program called the Paint Pals, i'm almost as clever as the teacher. It is a program for small kids where they can learn about paints and colors, but mostly to make sure that each child is happy with who they are and to accept that everyone should be themselves (except when you are yourself, then admitted to a psych ward). Because what child program doesn't teach that to kids right?

 Here is the brands page cut up in three parts. It shows all of the brands of paint that the store buys including themselves at the bottom because they mostly make their own paints. For this page I actually created all three logos in a span of about twenty-five minutes. You can probably tell that by the simplicity of them. But the three brands are Royal Paints, Rainbow Riders, and my favorite of the three Paintscape.

We also had to make a page called colors, so at first I tried to copy and paste the code for an interactive color wheel, but that ended horribly and greatly messed up the code. So instead I added a link to the site instead. It basically says the you can look at the color wheel and decide what colors you like, then you can go to the store and tell them the code for the color you are looking for.

This right here is the logo for the site which was the very first thing we needed to make. It was actually kind of fun to have to think up something from a simple idea as paint. There were some limits though; for instance we had to include the name of the company and it had to look "good" or something. All in all i'm actually very happy with how this site turned out.

Well, that is all I got for you right now

Until next time,

This is Jake Smith