Inspiration
We decided to make EcoHarmony a blog-posting website because both of us enjoy posting blogs. In fact, in both of our schools, making blogs was a main part of our English classes, so we have some experience in making blogs. We decided on making a blog-posting website because since we used to do it in our childhood.
What it does
EcoHarmony, as said before, is a environmental blog-posting site. Individuals can upload files, make posts, and view other posts as well on EcoHarmony. If an individuals wants to delete their post, they can do so by pressing the delete button in the "See Posted Blogs" page. The home page outlines our mission and how the user can help. Additionally, the homepage has a few example blogs and how they would look like. To add on, "The Earth's Story" page highlights some endangered animals and as to why their population is declining.
How we built it
We built this site by using HTML, CSS, and a little bit of JavaScript. However, most of it was HTML and CSS.
Challenges we ran into
HTML and CSS were really big challenges in the process of making our website. We've made websites before but usually they're plain with just bodies (). This time we tried to make our website look good and we learned how to apply CSS to HTML. It was also hard using javascript to display the posts made by the website users on a separate page. This took us a few hours to learn and understand, but after the difficulties, we were able to figure it out.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of how we managed to tackle the posting part of EcoHarmony. It was difficult at first, but after a while we started getting a hang of it. Eventually, we were able to post and delete blog posts, which was our end goal. In addition, we were proud of making our interface appealing. We really liked the colors and it also goes well with the theme of Environment.
What we learned
We learned how to use CSS and make our websites look better. Before this, our websites were plain and coded with just HTML. We learned how to use javascript and small databases. Before this hackathon, we both weren't as skilled at using javascript but now we know the basics and how to use it.
What's next for EcoHarmony
After our website gets more users we'll add a donation page and a sign-up/login page. The donation page will help us improve our website, support our cause, and it will help us develop the sign-up/login page. The sign-up/login will be helpful and make our blog posting system a safer environment. If we add reporting features and accounts then we will be able to tell when someone is posting inappropriate or hostile posts on the page. We will also be able to ban them from our website. add more stuff
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