This website was part of a project I was doing in International Business class for a fake company we created called Gaderio. It was a Brazilian chocolate company which we based out of Georgia. It was one my more impressive visual designs I’ve made before. When we show cased this website as part of a school-wide project to use technology more in the class room my website was easily able to out shine the websites created in the Web Design II class. I wasn’t surprised but it made a big point of how much further ahead I was.
This website isn’t very fast to download though. It was created for being viewed on a local computer with basically instant access. The images aren’t very small and so the website needs to load for a couple seconds first before being viewed. So please forgive any slowness in the loading and viewing of the website. The JavaScript is also set to load last so please let the rounded corner effects load as well.
Because no one would be using this website it has only a page or two of PHP code which spit back fake invoices. And those invoices are one line saying “we’re going to send you a box, thanks!” So the website is very static and therefore was very easy to make.
Development issues
During this I tried many different ways to develop this website while in school. I got GIMP portable and notepad2 Portable, I used Mozilla’s Bespin Project(Now SkyWritter), and I even just tried sitting there in class. None of it worked. In the end all of those things just made it all too difficult to make the website. The computers were just too damn slow and on top of that most of the time we were only using the Macs which proved difficult to create websites on with the programs I had gotten. I eventually just did it at home on my beloved ThinkPad T60p
I also used NiftyCorners for the rounded corners on my website. I’ve used it for almost all my projects except for a couple ASP.NET projects where I experimented with ASP.NET AJAX rounded corner effects and then I went back to NiftyCorners. I totally recommend those for any rounded corner effects although their draw back is that to load the page quickly they must take effect after the page loads.
Once I finished it I uploaded it to an account I had with x10hosting.com which was canceled later once I stopped visiting the forums as was required to remain an active account.
