22 Apr 2024
Finishing touches
The website was basically finished already, but it turned out there were still some pages missing.
For some products there are multiple different series available under the same product name, so we needed a way to compare them.
That’s were I needed to implement a new comparison page and restructure the website to allow multiple product pages under the same product name. It was a bit chaotic because the change came rather late, but in the end I managed to get it implemented:
I also added multiple pages to the blog page, so you can see all the blog posts on the Zubax website instead of heading over to the forum.
This was easier said than done, because the data that can be received from the forum only contains 30 posts for each request, but the website displays 9 per page. So I had to come up with some basic math to get it all to line up correctly.
After that I basically only added some small extra features or made some minor tweaks to the design.
At the end of the week, the website was almost ready for prime time. The only thing that was left to do was to replace all the leftover placeholders and update the new pages to show the desired content. But that can (hopefully) be done without my help.
So in the end I managed to achieve the goal of implementing the new design of the website in almost exactly the 2 months that I had.
Last days in Tallinn
On Tuesday we had the most amount of snow in the entire time that I have been in Tallinn. I woke up to everything covered in snow:
The last weekend in Tallinn I spent by visiting Pelgurand beach. It was still rather chilly and windy, so there weren’t that many people around. But it was nice to take a relaxing walk along the Baltic Sea for a last time here.
The END
I guess that concludes my trip to Tallinn for Erasmus+. The weather could have been better, but all in all it was a great experience that I won’t forget anytime soon.
15 Apr 2024
Finishing the remaining pages
In week 7 I finished all of the remaining pages and kept playing around with some minor tweaks here and there.
I started off with the blog page:
And after that the individual blog posts should also be shown on the website:
The blog posts are fetched from the Zubax Forum, all entries under the “Blog” category will be displayed on the blog page of the website. For now only the latest 9 blog posts are shown, but I may extend that to multiple pages to view all blog posts on the website instead of on the Zubax forum.
Additionally they turned out to require some manual work to fix the formatting and adjust the layout. As the blog posts include math equations and notations I had setup MathJax to render those correctly. But as you can see on the image above, in the end it turned out as expected with coherent colors and everything, thanks to a bit of custom CSS.
After finishing the blog, careers and services pages, everything was finally done!
Well not everything, but atleast every page was there. The “only” thing left now is to update all the placeholders and update the descriptions. But luckily this is not my job ;)
I also couldn’t help myself and tweaked the design to make it look better in certain edge cases. For example I noticed the logos at the bottom of the first page are not always shown on narrower aspect ratios like on my 16:10 laptop, so I fixed that by using the clamp() function to dynamically adjust the spacing based on the viewport height, in other words always show the logos at the bottom even on not so tall devices.
Oh and they are animated now with a nice fade on both sides:
Last (full) weekend
I can’t believe that I now only have 1 week left here in Tallinn.
On Friday for the first time ever (I think?) I went to a barber shop in another country, what an event :D
No but it was actually really nice, you could book an appointment online and pay by card. Not something that is usually possible in Berlin.
They also spoke good English there and it was only like a 1 minute walk from my apartment, so I could easily stop by after work.
This last (full) weekend I relaxed and on Sunday went at last on the viewing platform of the St. Olaf’s church. For 5€ you really get the best view of the city:
To get to this beautiful view you first have to climb up the 232 very narrow stairs, which is quite an adventure by itself. But it is totally worth it.
