Week 2

11 Mar 2024

Working on the Zubax homepage

The last week I spent mostly rehearsing and learning the basics of CSS and HTML again, so that this week I managed to nearly finish implementing the design in code.

Luckily the design was already made in Figma so I could borrow some assets and ideas and didn’t have to come up with my own design for the website. That way I could just focus on coding and making sure the website adapts to different screen sizes.

This was definitely easier said than done and the mobile view is still a WIP, but I am quite proud of what I could do in just 2 weeks. So here are a couple screenshots of the redesign:

It also took me a while to figure out how to implement the dropdown menu in plain CSS, but eventually I got there:

Rainy, windy and cold

This weekend the weather dismissed any possible plans that I had.

On Saturday it was super rainy and on Sunday it was windy and very cold (-10 °C felt temperature, according to the weather app on my phone).

I still visited the small russian museum in Tallinn, which was more of a musem about the old house it was in. But there was also an exhibition about Aleksandr Wladovsky, who was repsonsible for the designs of many different buildings in Tallinn during the time he lived here.

Sadly it wasn’t really made for international tourists and most of the text was either in Russian or Estonian, but the employees were very friendly and gave me some explanations and details in English.

And every day on my way home from work I could admire the beautiful lighting of the freedom square:

Week 1

04 Mar 2024

Start of the first work week

On my first day I had some trouble finding the office, as there were two entrances with the same house number. On top of that, they have just moved into a new place the week before, so there was no company label clearly visible. Eventually I found my way and was greeted by Pavel who showed me around the office.

My first tasks were:

• assembling my desk
• setting up my workstation
• connecting my pc to the network

The last task involved connecting two ethernet cables together by soldering and adding another switch so the cable could reach far enough. This setup took the whole first day, so only on the next day I would get to start with my main task.

Then I was introduced to the main task that I would work on for the next 2 months: Implementing the redesign of the new website.

Sunday walk

On Sunday I have used the sunny (but still cold) weather to take walk and get a first feel for the city. Just a minute from the apartment you can already see the Alexander-Newski-cathedral in the distance, so I decided to walk there and take a closer look at it.

Close to cathedral I also found some nice panorama spots which gave me a good view over Tallinn.