Week 6

08 Apr 2024

Technology, contact and about pages

For the 6th week I finished working on the individual pages for the technologies, similar to the product pages last week.

I adapted the sidebox on the right to the product pages as well, since it looks a bit more professional and offers more flexibility for different entries in the future.

Then I went on to the contact and about pages.

The design of the contact page was pretty simple but figuring out how to make the contact form work as expected and send out emails was a bit tricky at first. Luckily I found out about web3forms which makes this very trivial. #NoAd again, but the service is really good actually, and you can use it for free.

After that I did the about page. This one turned out really good:

The accordion menu for the FAQ section was the hardest part, as I wanted it to have nice animations when opening and closing sections. After watching a youtube tutorial it wasn’t too hard to do using only CSS and HTML.

Good weather and a visit

To the end of the week my mother came to visit me here in Tallinn for a couple of days.

The weather was really good and sunny until Sunday, where it began to rain and get colder again.

We spent the good weather by visiting Maarjamäe palace, the victims of communism memorial, Pirita beach and the TV tower.

On Saturday we visited the Museum of Occupations and Freedom, which was really interesting and gave an overview about the history of Estonia during the soviet occupation and the way on how it became independent again. It is very well made and has interactive elements like a small room with a VR headset and an old russian vending machine.

Week 5

01 Apr 2024

Individual product pages

The 5th week was all about implementing the design for the individual product pages.

This meant making a template and filling the information from different files depending on the product, so the product descriptions and details can be easily updated and maintained when I am no longer there.

The next step was to create a design for the technologies overview page. There was no design template for this page so I had to come up with something on my own.

It is maybe be a bit too much red but I actually quite like it. Keep in mind that I am not a frontend designer or anything so this is the best I could come up with in the time I had. I based it on the design for the products overview page to make it fit into the overall theme of the website.

Tallinn Music Week

This week the yearly Tallinn Music Week took place, which hosted a bunch of events, concerts etc..

I took part in a tour through the Linnahall concert hall, which I have mentioned in a previous blogpost already. It was interesting to get a look inside the abandoned building and some backstory on what was once happening there and why it was initially built.

Throughout the week the weather gods decided it was too early for spring and made it snow instead.

On Sunday I accidentally walked upon the “Tallinn” sign next to the beach, which I didn’t even know existed before, because it is kind of hidden when you come from inside of the city.