Bill Nog

Inspiration

Bill Nye, The Science Guy

The Onion

Egg Nog

Christmas in July

It is the combination of these four elements (in the proper proportions!) that lead to the creation of this idea. How did they come together so perfectly? ~*~Science~*~, with a capital S

What it does

Bill Nog serves the American public by providing it with the highest-quality, Scientific journalism.

How I built it

It's largely unfinished unfortunately, but I am basing the site design off of TheOnion.com and BillNye.com Initially planned to use Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com), but am starting to reconsider the decision. To properly answer the question: I wrote some simple HTML and CSS and borrowed a lot more.

Challenges I ran into

Auto-generating certain elements of the front webpage; I accidentally broke a lot of the functionality :( Lack of original, satirical content

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

What I learned

Working alone was a bad idea

What's next for Bill Nog

I hope to get Bill Nog up and running within the next week or two. The plan is to have several writers beyond myself. The writing "staff" will very likely just be college students in STEM who want to write high-quality (and funny, of course) satirical articles about science.

Core functionality/process yet to be implemented:

1 writers write their articles in markup

2 writers submit their articles to Bill Nog (they will have some sort of ID that allows them to do so)

3 articles are sent through a part human, part computer editorial process; it shall be swift

4 Bill Nog will process those articles into HTML and post them in the relevant section (math, health, social science, etc.)

Built With

• css3
• html5
• javascript
• mean
• science